Study Underscores SD Efforts to Minimize Impact of Child Abuse

Public News Service - October 20, 2021

A new study links premature deaths in adulthood with people who experience abuse as children, and South Dakota groups say it reinforces the need for prevention work. Researchers in England found adults who were sexually abused by age 16 are more than twice as likely to die in middle age. In cases of physical abuse, the risk is 1.7 times higher.

Also: Child maltreatment, early life socioeconomic disadvantage and all-cause mortality in mid-adulthood: findings from a prospective British birth cohort: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/conten...1/9/e050914.full.pdf
Also: The prevalence of adverse childhood experiences, nationally, by state, and by race or ethnicity: https://www.childtrends.org/pu...state-race-ethnicity

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