Wednesday 23 January 2013

Limited success on child abuse from visits, intervention: study

(Reuters) - Home visits and doctor's office interventions to prevent child abuse appear to have only limited success, with evidence mixed on whether they help at all, according to a U.S. analysis based on ten international studies. As a result, the government-backed U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said this week that current evidence is "insufficient" to recommend such programs for dealing with the hundreds of thousands of children reported to be abused each year. "There have been a few studies done... ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..

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