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Study: Child maltreatment victims lose 2 years of quality of life
Date:5/28/2008

he true impact of childhood maltreatment. Children experience severe reductions in quality of life as maltreatment is occurring, and surveys of adults dont account for those reductions.

Still, she said her teams study highlights the long-term damage associated with child maltreatment and, by helping to quantify its costs, helps make the case for funding prevention efforts.

A lot of the time people dont consider violence as a public health issue, Corso said, but theres a body of evidence that exists now that shows long-term health impacts of childhood maltreatment.


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Contact: Sam Fahmy
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University of Georgia
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