The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States and implications for prevention

Fang, Xiangming; S. Brown, Derek; Florence, Curtis; A. Mercy, James

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.10.006

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The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States and implications for prevention

Published in Child Abuse & Neglect • Feb 1, 2012

Authors:

Xiangming Fang

Derek S. Brown

Curtis Florence

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To present new estimates of the average lifetime costs per child maltreatment victim and aggregate lifetime costs for all new child maltreatment cases incurred in 2008 using an incidence-based approach. METHODS: This study used the best available secondary data to develop cost per case e...

Subject

Poison control

Injury prevention

Suicide prevention

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