new YORK (Reuters Health) – hospitalizations

paediatric abuse they grew up in the United States in last decade

, and one study suggests that such an increase would be by the crisis

housing from the end of the 2000s.

to review statistics for the 2000-2009 period, the

hospitalizations for physical abuse in pediatric hospitals of the

country reached its peak in 2008, when they started

the executions of mortgages in many regions of the country.

and, in general, to increased the amount of debts

and foreclosures in different areas of the country, also

they did hospitalizations for abuse children.

this does not prove that the housing crisis is the culprit.

“this type of study does not prove cause, but only one

Association”, said the lead author, Dr. Joanne N. Wood,

of the Hospital for children in Philadelphia.

the results, published in Pediatrics, arise from a base

the care centres hospital discharge data

Pediatric large cities between 2000 and 2009, is

recorded some 11,800 children by abuse international

physique of children under six years in 38 hospitals.

that represents 0.28 percent of the 4.2 million of

international totals.

over the years, this rate varied: in 2008 reached if level

maximum of 0.3 percent.

then, the team studied the rates of unemployment and lack of

housing of each city. by each percentage increase of the

executions of local mortgages, hospitalisations

Pediatric physical abuse grew 6.5 percent the year

following. it was observed the same pattern when the team revised

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on the other hand, did not emerge any association between unemployment and

stays for abuse child.

is not known the reason for these differences, but Wood

raised that unemployment is not as extreme marker of the

family economic problems as the breach of a

mortgage or its execution.

results describe a different scenario to the of

previous studies that had suggested that child abuse

it was declining in the United States, as he recalled the team

Wood. the author attributed it possibly the origin of the

data used.

there is”reasonable evidence”the reduction of other forms

of maltreatment, said Dr. Kristine a. Campbell,

pediatrician from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

“Pero aún persisten problemas enormes de abuso infantil

graf “, agregó Campbell, que geen participó del estudio.

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Como hout, Campbell consideró imposible concluir si las

ejecuciones de las hipotecas eran la causa de los casos de abuso

graf.” niet sabemos si el estrés económico causa el abuso

infantil “, indicó.

Señaló tambien que las causas de esa relación podrían ser

Aun así complejas., dijo que” el estudio se suma een una gran

cantidad de pruebas de que las crisis económicas afectan a las

familias y los niños “.

Eso bevat efectos negativos nl la nutrición, el

rendimiento escolar y la salud general de los niños.

” nl las crisis económicas geen vulnerable recortarse los

servicios familiares “, sostuvo Campbell Se refería een programas

públicos como WIC, que les ofrece asistencia nutricional a las

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de positieve kant van de studie was het vinden van een

vermindering van kinderen hospitalisaties voor fysieke mishandeling in de

2009, terwijl de huisvestingscrisis bleef. Campbell geloofde

die moeten verder te bestuderen om te begrijpen van de oorzaken

potentieel.

Bron: kindergeneeskunde, online 16 juli 2012.