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Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • Filicide in Africa: a systematic review [2024]

• WHO African Region
  • Child Sexual Abuse: a Silent Health Emergency [2004]

Albania

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Prevalence of child maltreatment in Albania [2024]

Americas

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Regional Status Report 2020: Preventing and Responding to Violence against Children in the Americas [2020]
  • Violence against children

Australia

• ACT Government
  • Reporting child abuse: the law

• Australian Family Physician
  • Infant abusive head trauma - Incidence, outcomes and awareness [2012]

• Australian Institute of Family Studies
  • Mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Child protection

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Problem sexual behaviours in children [2018]

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • The prevalence of child sexual abuse perpetrated by leaders or other adults in religious organizations in Australia [2024]
  • Child sexual abuse by different classes and types of perpetrator: Prevalence and trends from an Australian national survey [2024]

• Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • The Prevalence of Peer Sexual Harassment During Childhood in Australia [2024]

• Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Technology-Facilitated Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children Is Everyone's Problem; How Can Healthcare Practitioners Respond to the Second Global Pandemic of the 21st Century? A Narrative Review [2025]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • The prevalence of child maltreatment in Australia: findings from a national survey [2023]
  • The prevalence and nature of multi-type child maltreatment in Australia [2023]
  • The Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS), a national survey of the prevalence of child maltreatment and its correlates: methodology [2023]

• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
  • Child abuse and neglect

• SA Health
  • Childhood Sexual Abuse. Perinatal care considerations

Bahrain

• Annals of Saudi Medicine
  • Reported child sexual abuse in Bahrain: 2000-2009 [2011]

Brazil

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Unraveling the reality of interpersonal violence against children and adolescents in Brazil: a systematic review [2025]

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Professional practices in situations of child abuse: an integrative review [2023]

Canada

• BCGuidelines
  • The B.C. Handbook for Action on Child Abuse and Neglect: For Service Providers

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Management of the paediatric patient with acute head trauma [2025]
  • Medical assessment of suspected traumatic head injury due to child maltreatment (THI-CM) [2024]
  • Medical neglect: Working with children, youth, and families [2022]
  • The medical evaluation of pre-pubertal children with suspected sexual abuse [2020]
  • The medical assessment of fractures in suspected child maltreatment: Infants and young children with skeletal injury [2018]

• CMAJ
  • Child abuse and mental disorders in Canada [2014]

• Paediatrics & Child Health
  • Child maltreatment in Canada, 2013 [2013]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Child maltreatment in Canada: prevalence and gender differences among youth [2026]
  • Is child sexual abuse declining in Canada? Results from nationally representative retrospective surveys [2016]
  • A review of recent analyses of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS) [2015]
  • Child Maltreatment Surveillance Indicator Framework

Canada, United States

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Recruitment and Entrapment Pathways of Minors into Sex Trafficking in Canada and the United States: A Systematic Review [2023]

China

• PLoS ONE
  • Reported prevalence of childhood maltreatment among Chinese college students: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]

Croatia

• Croatian Medical Journal
  • Gender and age differences in prevalence and incidence of child sexual abuse in Croatia [2013]

Denmark

• European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Physical violence against children with disabilities: A Danish national birth cohort prospective study [2023]

• Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
  • Management of child maltreatment suspicions in general practice: a mixed methods study [2023]

East Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • Physical, psychological, sexual, and systemic abuse of children with disabilities in East Africa: Mapping the evidence [2017]

East Asia, Pacific

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • The burden of child maltreatment in the East Asia and Pacific region [2015]

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Ending Violence against Children During Covid-19 and Beyond: Second Regional Conference to Strengthen Implementation of the INSPIRE Strategies, East Asia and the Pacific, Virtual Meeting, 1-5 November 2021: Meeting Report [2022]

Ecuador

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • A Comparison of Willingness to Pay to Prevent Child Maltreatment Deaths in Ecuador and the United States [2013]

Egypt

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and risk factors for child labour and violence against children in Egypt using Bayesian geospatial modelling with multiple imputation [2019]

Ethiopia

• Global Health Action
  • Multilevel correlates of childhood violence in refugee settings: findings from the Ethiopia humanitarian violence against children and youth survey [2026]

Europe

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on characteristics, extent, and trends in child maltreatment in 34 Euro-CAN COST Action Countries: a scoping review of the literature [2026]
  • A scoping review of participatory approaches in child maltreatment research across Europe [2025]
  • Prevalence of interpersonal violence against children in sport in six European countries [2023]

• European Society of Paediatric Radiology
  • ESR Essentials: imaging of suspected child abuse-practice recommendations by the European Society of Paediatric Radiology [2025]
  • Controversial aspects of imaging in child abuse: a second roundtable discussion from the ESPR child abuse taskforce [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • Recognition of child maltreatment in emergency departments in Europe: Should we do better? [2021]

• WHO European Region
  • European regional status report on preventing violence against children 2020 [2021]
  • European status report on preventing child maltreatment [2018]
  • Measuring and monitoring national prevalence of child maltreatment: a practical handbook [2016]
  • Handbook on developing national action plans to prevent child maltreatment [2016]
  • Investing in children: the European child maltreatment prevention action plan 2015-2020 [2015]
  • Implementing child maltreatment prevention programmes: what the experts say [2015]
  • European report on preventing child maltreatment [2013]
  • The cycles of violence : the relationship between childhood maltreatment and the risk of later becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence : key facts [2007]
  • Preventing child maltreatment

France

• European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Incidence of child abuse with subdural hemorrhage during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study in France [2022]

• Haute Autorité de Santé
  • Child abuse: identification and action to be taken [2014]

Germany

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Trends in child maltreatment in Germany: comparison of two representative population-based studies [2018]

• RöFo
  • The German Evidence-Based Child Protection Guideline – Imaging in Suspected Child Abuse [2020]

Ghana

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • The protective effects of the collective cultural value of abiriwatia against child neglect: Results from a nationally representative survey [2023]

• Ministry of Health Ghana
  • Child Protection Guidelines for Health Workers [2018]

Gulf Cooperation Council

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Child maltreatment and protection in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A scoping review [2022]

Haiti

• International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion
  • The relationship between commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and childhood sexual abuse (CSA) among boys and girls in Haiti [2022]

• Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Lifetime and Child Sexual Violence, Risk Factors and Mental Health Correlates Among a Nationally Representative Sample of Adolescents and Young Adults in Haiti: A Public Health Emergency [2023]

High-income countries

• Child Maltreatment
  • Leveraging Administrative Data to Better Understand and Address Child Maltreatment: A Scoping Review of Data Linkage Studies [2023]

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Kinship Care and Child Protection in High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review [2023]

Hong Kong

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Prevalence of Child Maltreatment and Its Association with Parenting Style: A Population Study in Hong Kong [2019]

• Social Welfare Department
  • Protecting Children from Maltreatment - Procedural Guide for Multi-disciplinary Co-operation [2020]

India

• BMC Public Health
  • Ethical and definitional considerations in research on child sexual violence in India [2018]

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics
  • Recommendations on recognition and response to child abuse and neglect in the Indian setting [2010]

• Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
  • A comprehensive approach to child sexual abuse: Insights for dermatologists [2026]

• Indian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for Child Sexual Abuse [2019]

• Indian Pediatrics
  • Child Sexual Abuse: Management and Prevention, and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act [2017]

International

• Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Depression [2025]

• BMC Oral Health
  • Factors that inhibit reporting of child maltreatment among dental health personnel - a scoping review [2025]

• BMC Public Health
  • Priorities for research in child maltreatment, intimate partner violence and resilience to violence exposures: results of an international Delphi consensus development process [2012]

• BMJ Open
  • Asking youth and adults about child maltreatment: a review of government surveys [2022]

• BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • Mapping the global prevalence and socioecological drivers of child sexual abuse: a systematic review and synthesis [2026]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Violence against children during the COVID-19 pandemic [2021]

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Treatments for child neglect: A scoping review [2025]
  • Maltreatment and executive functioning in childhood and adolescence - A multilevel meta-analysis [2025]
  • Cost effectiveness of interventions to prevent the occurrence and the associated economic impacts of child maltreatment: A systematic review [2025]
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of medical and psychosocial care procedures for children and adolescents after (online) sexual abuse [2025]
  • Childhood maltreatment and non-suicidal self-injury in adolescent population: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • The prevalences, changes, and related factors of child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review [2023]
  • International guidelines for the prevention of sexual violence: A systematic review and perspective of WHO, UN Women, UNESCO, and UNICEF's publications [2023]
  • Global prevalence of physical and psychological child abuse during COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • From parental issues of job and finance to child well-being and maltreatment: A systematic review of the pandemic-related spillover effect [2023]
  • A mapping of parenting support policies worldwide to prevent violence against children [2023]

• Child Maltreatment
  • The Association Between Child Maltreatment and Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis [2024]

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Interventions to prevent sexual abuse of children and adolescents in school environments: scientific evidence [2026]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Challenges faced by parents in preventing online child sexual exploitation and abuse: a mixed methods systematic review [2026]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Child Maltreatment Reporting Practices by a Person Most Knowledgeable for Children and Youth: A Rapid Scoping Review [2022]

• International Wound Journal
  • Prevalence of non-accidental burns and related factors in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Demographic and Psychosocial Factors Associated With Child Sexual Exploitation [2020]

• Journal of Affective Disorders
  • The association between childhood maltreatment and clinical features of depressive, anxiety, and stress-related disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2026]
  • Maternal childhood maltreatment and perinatal outcomes: A systematic review [2022]

• Journal of Public Health
  • Is parental unemployment associated with increased risk of adverse childhood experiences? A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews
  • Identifying Risk Factors of Children Who Suffered Physical Abuse: A Systematic Review [2025]

• Nature Human Behaviour
  • Health effects associated with exposure of children to physical violence, psychological violence and neglect: a Burden of Proof study [2025]

• Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Childhood maltreatment as a predictor of substance use/misuse among youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Improving measurement of child abuse and neglect: A systematic review and analysis of national prevalence studies [2020]

• Psychological Medicine
  • Child maltreatment and resilience in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• Social Science & Medicine
  • Adverse childhood experiences and loneliness: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• Torture
  • Children who survive torture: A systematic review of screening, documentation and treatment of torture injuries in children [2024]

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Unpacking Parenting Intervention Content for Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Review Examining Core Components [2026]
  • Intergenerational Cycles of Maltreatment: An Updated Scoping Review of Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors [2026]
  • Male Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse: A Review [2025]
  • Economic Evaluation of Prevention Interventions for Child Sexual Exploitation or Child Sexual Abuse: A Systematic Review [2025]
  • Victims of Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse: A Scoping Review [2024]
  • Global Prevalence of Childhood Exposure to Physical Violence within Domestic and Family Relationships in the General Population: A Systematic Review and Proportional Meta-Analysis [2024]
  • COVID-19 and Caregiver Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment: The Pandemic in Review [2024]
  • The Impact of Childhood Psychological Maltreatment on Mental Health Outcomes in Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]
  • Child Maltreatment During COVID-19: Key Conclusions and Future Directions Based on a Systematic Literature Review [2023]
  • Characteristics of Sexual Homicide Offenders Focusing on Child Victims: A Review of the Literature [2023]

• United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
  • International Classification of Violence against Children (ICVAC) [2023]
  • Violence Against Children

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
  • End Violence Against Children

Ireland

• Health Information and Quality Authority
  • Report of the investigation into the management of allegations of child sexual abuse against adults of concern by the Child and Family Agency (Tusla) upon the direction of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs [2018]
  • Guidance on an investigation into the management of allegations of child sexual abuse [2017]

• Tusla - Child and Family Agency
  • Child Protection & Welfare

Kenya

• Frontiers in Global Women's Health
  • Children's Vulnerability to Sexual Violence During COVID-19 in Kenya: Recommendations for the Future [2021]

• International Journal of Women's Health
  • Postrape care services to minors in Kenya: are the services healing or hurting survivors? [2016]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Sexualised violence against children: a review of laws and policies in Kenya [2019]

Latin America

• Child's Nervous System
  • Abusive head trauma in children under 2 years of age in Latin America: a systematic review [2026]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• BMC Public Health
  • Violence against children in Latin America and Caribbean countries: a comprehensive review of national health sector efforts in prevention and response [2016]

Low and middle income countries

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • The effectiveness of parenting interventions in reducing violence against children in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

Mongolia

• Global Health Action
  • Prevalence and factors of physical punishment and psychological aggression toward children under five in Mongolia: an analysis of the 2018 Social Indicator Survey [2024]

Netherlands

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Prevalence of child maltreatment in the Netherlands: An update and cross-time comparison [2020]

• Public Health
  • Does child abuse predict a population segment with large economic burden? [2024]

New Zealand

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Ethnic Disparities in Childhood Prevalence of Maltreatment: Evidence From a New Zealand Birth Cohort [2019]

• Starship
  • Abuse and Neglect

Nigeria

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Child Sexual Abuse in Nigeria: A Systematic Review [2024]

OECD countries

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Changes in child maltreatment occurrence during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review [2025]

Oman

• Ministry of Health Oman
  • Clinical Guidelines of Child Abuse and Neglect

• Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
  • Child Rights: What can we do in Oman? [2012]

Peru

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Physical punishment and effective verbal communication in children aged 9-36 months, according to sex: secondary analysis of a national survey [2024]

Rwanda

• BMC Public Health
  • Predictors of physical violence against children in Rwanda: findings from a National Cross-Sectional Survey [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Correlates of emotional violence against children in Rwanda: Findings from a cross-sectional national survey [2023]

Saudi Arabia

• Annals of Saudi Medicine
  • Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect in Saudi Arabia: Are We Ready? [2011]

Singapore

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Adverse childhood experiences and positive psychotic symptoms: A nationally representative study in Singapore [2022]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Management of child abuse [2013]

South Africa

• Lancet Global Health
  • Sexual violence against children in South Africa: a nationally representative cross-sectional study of prevalence and correlates [2018]

South-East Asia

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Child sexual exploitation and abuse: considerations of cultural differences in policy and legislation [2026]

Sri Lanka

• Ministry of Health Sri Lanka
  • National Guideline for the Management of Child Abuse and Neglect [2014]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMJ Open
  • Trends and demographic differences in interpersonal violence against children in sub-Saharan Africa: findings from the 1990-2019 Global Burden of Disease Study [2025]

• PLoS ONE
  • What do we know about how children and adolescents conceptualise violence? A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies from sub-Saharan Africa [2024]

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Violence Against Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review of Literature on the Victim-Perpetrator Relationship [2025]

Sweden

• Acta Paediatrica
  • Child physical abuse, declining trend in prevalence over 10 years in Sweden [2020]

• Implementation Science
  • Transfer of knowledge to diagnose infant abuse and its incidence - a time-series analysis from Sweden [2022]

• Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
  • Facing suspected child abuse – what keeps Swedish general practitioners from reporting to child protective services? [2015]

• Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
  • Primary care interventions provided to families where children have been subjected to abuse and neglect [2018]

Switzerland

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Mobilizing agencies for incidence surveys on child maltreatment: successful participation in Switzerland and lessons learned [2018]

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Nurses' and physicians' reported difficulties and enablers to recognising and reporting child abuse in Swiss paediatric emergency and paediatric surgery departments - an observational study [2023]

Tanzania

• WHO African Region
  • Policy Brief- Tanzania's Parenting interventions [2024]

United Arab Emirates

• European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry
  • Assessment of the knowledge of United Arab Emirates dentists of Child Maltreatment, protection and safeguarding [2018]

United Kingdom

• Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • Rate and severity of radiological features of physical abuse in children during the first UK-wide COVID-19 enforced national lockdown [2022]

• BMC Psychiatry
  • Associations between developmental timing of child abuse and conduct problem trajectories in a UK birth cohort [2021]

• BMJ Open
  • Comparative relationships between physical and verbal abuse of children, life course mental well-being and trends in exposure: a multi-study secondary analysis of cross-sectional surveys in England and Wales [2025]
  • Exploration of trends in the incidence and prevalence of childhood maltreatment and domestic abuse recording in UK primary care: a retrospective cohort study using ‘the health improvement network’ database [2020]

• British Psychological Society
  • Guidance on responding to disclosures of non-recent (historic) child sexual abuse: Safeguarding and support implications [2023]

• British Society of Paediatric Dentistry
  • British Society of Paediatric Dentistry: A policy document on dental neglect in children [2024]

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Defining paediatric abusive head trauma using routinely collected patient datasets: Scoping review and testing in a UK cohort [2025]
  • Prevalence of violence against children in the United Kingdom: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Improving professional practice in the investigation and management of intrafamilial child sexual abuse: Qualitative analysis of serious child protection reviews [2023]

• Crown Prosecution Service
  • Child Abuse (non-sexual)

• Department for Education
  • Child abuse concerns: guide for practitioners

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • Helping school nurses to tackle child sexual exploitation

• Depression and Anxiety
  • Protecting the Protectors: Moral Injury, Coping Styles, and Mental Health of UK Police Officers and Staff Investigating Child Sexual Abuse Material [2024]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s [2025]
  • 2024 exceptional surveillance of child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s (NICE guideline CG89) [2024]
  • Child abuse and neglect [2019]
  • Child abuse and neglect guidance

• National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
  • Keeping children safe
  • Child abuse and neglect

• NHS England
  • Paediatric forensic healthcare practitioner capabilities framework for child sexual abuse assessment [2023]

• Public Health Scotland
  • Ending childhood adversity: A public health approach [2020]

• Right Decisions
  • Child Protection

• Royal College of Ophthalmologists
  • Abusive head trauma and the eye in infants and children - clinical guideline update by the royal college of ophthalmologists and the royal college of paediatrics and child health: executive summary [2024]

• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Child protection and safeguarding

• Royal College of Radiologists
  • The radiological investigation of suspected physical abuse in children [2017]

• Scottish Government
  • Tackling child neglect in Scotland 3: rapid review of legislation and policy [2018]
  • Tackling child neglect in Scotland 2: rapid review of intervention literature [2018]
  • Tackling child neglect in Scotland 1: follow-up survey 2016 [2018]
  • National action plan to tackle child sexual exploitation: progress report 2016-2017 [2017]
  • Child protection guidance

• Sentencing Council
  • Cruelty to a child – assault and ill treatment, abandonment, neglect, and failure to protect

• UK Parliament
  • Duties to report child abuse in England [2026]

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [2024]
  • Behavioral Interventions and Counseling to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect [2013]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Systems-Based Care of the Injured Child: Technical Report [2025]
  • Systems-Based Care of the Injured Child: Policy Statement [2025]
  • Human Trafficking and Exploitation of Children and Adolescents: Policy Statement [2025]
  • Evaluating Young Children With Fractures for Child Abuse: Clinical Report [2025]
  • Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children: Technical Report [2025]
  • The Pediatrician’s Role in Preventing Child Maltreatment: Clinical Report [2024]
  • Protecting Children and Condemning Hate During a Time of War [2024]
  • Oral and Dental Aspects of Child Abuse and Neglect: Clinical Report [2024]
  • Child Fatality Review [2024]
  • Protecting Children From Sexual Abuse by Health Care Professionals and in the Health Care Setting [2022]
  • Exploitation, Labor and Sex Trafficking of Children and Adolescents: Health Care Needs of Patients [2022]
  • Evaluation for Bleeding Disorders in Suspected Child Abuse [2022]
  • Evaluating for Suspected Child Abuse: Conditions That Predispose to Bleeding [2022]
  • Maltreatment of Children With Disabilities [2021]
  • Runaway Youth: Caring for the Nation’s Largest Segment of Missing Children [2020]
  • Children Exposed to Maltreatment: Assessment and the Role of Psychotropic Medication [2020]
  • Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children [2020]
  • Ongoing Pediatric Health Care for the Child Who Has Been Maltreated [2019]
  • Identifying Child Abuse Fatalities During Infancy [2019]
  • The Eye Examination in the Evaluation of Child Abuse [2018]
  • Global Human Trafficking and Child Victimization [2017]
  • Clinical Considerations Related to the Behavioral Manifestations of Child Maltreatment [2017]
  • Virtual Violence [2016]
  • The Evaluation of Suspected Child Physical Abuse [2015]
  • Child Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Health Care Needs of Victims [2015]
  • Evaluating Children With Fractures for Child Physical Abuse [2014]
  • The Evaluation of Children in the Primary Care Setting When Sexual Abuse Is Suspected [2013]
  • Caregiver-Fabricated Illness in a Child: A Manifestation of Child Maltreatment [2013]
  • Psychological Maltreatment [2012]
  • Child Abuse, Confidentiality, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [2010]
  • Child Abuse and Neglect

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Human Trafficking [2019]
  • Adult Manifestations of Childhood Sexual Abuse [2011]

• American College of Radiology
  • Suspected Physical Abuse — Child

• American Family Physician
  • Child Abuse: Approach and Management [2022]

• American Psychological Association
  • APA Guidelines for Psychological Evaluations in Child Protection Matters [2024]

• Annual Review of Public Health
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): What Have We Learned and What's Next? [2026]

• Association of Professionals Solving the Abuse of Children
  • Practice Guidelines

• BMC Public Health
  • Describing associations between child maltreatment frequency and the frequency and timing of subsequent delinquent or criminal behaviors across development: variation by sex, sexual orientation, and race [2019]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among U.S. Adults — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2011–2020 [2023]
  • Sexual Assault or Abuse of Children - STI Treatment Guidelines [2021]
  • Trends in U.S. Emergency Department Visits Related to Suspected or Confirmed Child Abuse and Neglect Among Children and Adolescents Aged 18 Years Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, January 2019–September 2020 [2020]
  • Vital Signs: Estimated Proportion of Adult Health Problems Attributable to Adverse Childhood Experiences and Implications for Prevention — 25 States, 2015–2017 [2019]
  • Child Abuse and Neglect

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Homeschooling and child maltreatment: A review of the regulatory context and research evidence in the United States [2025]

• Child Maltreatment
  • Evidence-Based Home Visiting Provisions and Child Maltreatment Report Rates: County-Level Analysis of US National Data From 2016 to 2018 [2024]

• Child Welfare Information Gateway
  • Safety and Risk

• Hospital Pediatrics
  • Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment Fatalities in a National Pediatric Inpatient Database [2020]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Prevalence of Online Sexual Offenses Against Children in the US [2022]

• Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Community Food Insecurity and Child Maltreatment Reports: County-Level Analysis of U.S. National Data From 2009 to 2018 [2023]

• Journal of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Trends and forecasted rates of adverse childhood experiences among adults in the United States: an analysis of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System [2023]

• Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
  • Updated Guidelines for the Medical Assessment and Care of Children Who May Have Been Sexually Abused [2016]

• Lancet Public Health
  • Intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment in the USA: a retrospective cohort study [2023]

• Pediatric Emergency Care
  • National Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Child Maltreatment, 2007-2014 [2022]

• Society for Pediatric Radiology
  • The impact of the consensus statement on abusive head trauma in infants and young children [2021]

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Association of Housing Stress With Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Review [2022]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Prevention of Child Maltreatment: Primary Care Interventions [2024]

• Violence and Victims
  • Violent Victimization During Childhood in the United States: Associations With Revictimization and Health [2023]

Western countries

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • A systematic scoping review of indigenous-specific research evidence on child sexual abuse [2026]
  • The impacts on paediatricians testifying in cases of child maltreatment: A systematic scoping review [2025]

• JAMA
  • Has This Child Experienced Physical Abuse?: The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review [2025]

• Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • The Prevalence and Correlates of Child Sexual Offending Behaviours and Attitudes Among Men in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States: Study Methodology [2026]
  • Introduction to the Special Issue: Prevalence and Characteristics of Child Sexual Abuse Perpetration in Australia, the United States, and United Kingdom [2026]
  • Identifying the Demographic and Internet Use Characteristics of Technology-Facilitated Child Sex Offenders Operating in the Australian, U.S. and U.K. General Population [2026]

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • The Effectiveness of Psychological Treatment in Adult Male Convicted for Sexual Offenses Against Children: A Systematic Review [2023]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Preventing violence against children: a social determinants framework for INSPIRE implementation [2025]
  • Corporal punishment of children: the public health impact [2025]
  • Intersections between violence against children and violence against women [2024]
  • WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent–child relationships with children aged 0–17 years: web annex: GRADE evidence profiles and evidence to decision tables [2023]
  • WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent–child relationships with children aged 0–17 years [2023]
  • What works to prevent violence against children online? [2022]
  • What works to prevent online violence against children? executive summary [2022]
  • Violence against children online [2022]
  • Responding to child maltreatment: a clinical handbook for health professionals [2022]
  • Reporting on violence against children: a guide for journalists [2022]
  • INSPIRE: seven strategies for ending violence against children: uptake between 2016 and 2021 [2022]
  • Universal parenting support to prevent abuse and neglect: A policy call for national governments [2021]
  • Global status report on preventing violence against children 2020 [2020]
  • WHO Guidelines for the health sector response to child maltreatment [2019]
  • School-based violence prevention: a practical handbook [2019]
  • INSPIRE handbook: action for implementing the seven strategies for ending violence against children [2018]
  • Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused [2017]
  • Toolkit on mapping legal, health and social services responses to child maltreatment [2015]
  • Improving efforts to prevent children’s exposure to violence: a handbook to support the evaluation of child maltreatment prevention programmes [2014]
  • Preventing violence: evaluating outcomes of parenting programmes [2013]
  • Preventing violence through the development of safe, stable and nurturing relationships between children and their parents and caregivers [2009]
  • Preventing violence by developing life skills in children and adolescents [2009]
  • Preventing child maltreatment : a guide to taking action and generating evidence [2006]
  • Violence against children: Fact sheet
  • Violence against children
  • Violence Info – Child maltreatment
  • Preventing violence against children
  • Online violence against children
  • Measuring and evaluating child maltreatment
  • Lifetime prevalence of child maltreatment (%)
  • Lifetime prevalence of child emotional abuse (%)
  • Extent of implementation of child protection services
  • Child maltreatment: Fact sheet
  • Child maltreatment: Extent of implementation of home-visiting programmes
  • Caring for child victims of violence

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • Preventing violence against children 2020: status report for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region [2021]

WHO South-East Asia Region

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Preventing violence against children 2020: report for the WHO South-East Asia Region [2021]
  • Managing child abuse : a handbook of medical officer [2004]

WHO Western Pacific Region

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Child maltreatment [2016]
  • Ending violence against children

Zimbabwe

• BMC Public Health
  • National COVID-19 lockdown and trends in help-seeking for violence against children in Zimbabwe: an interrupted time-series analysis [2022]

• BMJ Open
  • Exploring children's formal help-seeking behaviour for violence in Zimbabwe: analysis of national survey and routine service provider data [2023]

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