WHO issues guide on child violence.Following up on the UN Secretary-General's report, the World Health Organization has issued a guide to help governments and aid agencies prevent violence against children. The Secretary-General's report counted that at least 53,000 children die each year in acts of domestic violence. Preventing child maltreatment child maltreatment '…intentional harm or threat of harm to a child by someone acting in the role of a caretaker, for even a short time…Categories Physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect…', the last being most common. is a guide that aims at stamping out violence by parents and caregivers. "For too long now, the response to child maltreatment has been dominated by systems reacting to cases once maltreatment maltreatment Social medicine Any of a number of types of unreasonable interactions with another adult. See Child maltreatment, Cf Child abuse. has already started. The scientific evidence for preventing physical, sexual and psychological abuse from occurring in the first place is already quite strong, and the time is ripe for a paradigm shift A dramatic change in methodology or practice. It often refers to a major change in thinking and planning, which ultimately changes the way projects are implemented. For example, accessing applications and data from the Web instead of from local servers is a paradigm shift. See paradigm. from reaction to prevention," said Dr. Anders Nordstrom, WHO Acting Director General. The guide, published jointly with the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, provides technical advice for professionals working in Governments, research institutes and non-governmental organizations “NGO” redirects here. For other uses, see NGO (disambiguation). A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a legally constituted organization created by private persons or organizations with no participation or representation of any government. (NGOs) on how to measure the extent of child maltreatment and its consequences. It also advises on how to design, implement and evaluate prevention programmes. The guide notes that the strong relationships between child maltreatment, economic inequality
Economic inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income. and poverty mean that reducing inequality inequality, in mathematics, statement that a mathematical expression is less than or greater than some other expression; an inequality is not as specific as an equation, but it does contain information about the expressions involved. , as well as poverty, is likely to make a significant contribution to preventing child maltreatment. www.who.int [GRAPHIC OMITTED] |
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