Medical assessment for child sexual abuse: a post-code lottery
Everitt, Rose
Medical assessment for child sexual abuse: a post-code lottery Rose Everitt, Peter Reed and Patrick Kelly - 2012 - electronic document (6 p.) - Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health .
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2012, 48(5): 389–394
This article describes the number of children and young people in New Zealand who receive amedical assessment for sexual abuse, the proportion of those where there is concern about sexual abuse who receive such assessments and the way in which assessment services are structured. The authors conclude that "health assessments for alleged child and adolescent sexual abuse are relatively infrequent, nationally inconsistent and often poorly supported by local health ystems. There is also marked but apparently unrelated regional variation in statutory child protection practice." [from the abstract]
CHILDREN
ADOLESCENTS
DEMOGRAPHICS
HEALTH SERVICES
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
NEW ZEALAND
Medical assessment for child sexual abuse: a post-code lottery Rose Everitt, Peter Reed and Patrick Kelly - 2012 - electronic document (6 p.) - Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health .
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2012, 48(5): 389–394
This article describes the number of children and young people in New Zealand who receive amedical assessment for sexual abuse, the proportion of those where there is concern about sexual abuse who receive such assessments and the way in which assessment services are structured. The authors conclude that "health assessments for alleged child and adolescent sexual abuse are relatively infrequent, nationally inconsistent and often poorly supported by local health ystems. There is also marked but apparently unrelated regional variation in statutory child protection practice." [from the abstract]
CHILDREN
ADOLESCENTS
DEMOGRAPHICS
HEALTH SERVICES
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
NEW ZEALAND