physical abuse

Each province and territory has unique legislation defining and describing responses to physical abuse. Physical abuse includes any non-accidental action that causes, or could cause physical harm to a child such as hitting, shaking, or the unreasonable use of force to restrain a child.

Title	Authors	Year Sort ascending
L’évolution de la sévérité de la maltraitance au Québec	Hélie, Sonia Roy, Catherine	2010
The association between childhood physical abuse and heart disease in adulthood: Findings from a representative community sample	Fuller-Thomson, Esme Brennenstuhl, Sarah Frank, John	2010
The robust association between childhood physical abuse and osteoarthritis in adulthood: Findings from a representative community sample	Fuller-Thomson, Esme Stefanyk, Maria Brennenstuhl, Sarah	2009
Physical Punishment in Childhood: A Human Rights and Child Protection Issue	Watkinson, Ailsa M.	2009
Childhood trauma and injection drug use among high-risk youth	Kerr, Thomas Stoltz, Jo-Anne Marshall, Brandon Lai, Calvin Strathdee, Steffanie A. Wood, Evan	2009
Patterns of skeletal fractures in child abuse: Systematic review	Kemp, A. M., F. Dunstan, et al.	2008
Intervention type matters in primary prevention of abusive head injury: Event history analysis results	Russell, B.S., Trudeau, J., & Britner, P.A.	2008
From suspicion of physical child abuse to reporting: primary care clinician decision-making	Flaherty, A.G., Sege, R.D., Griffith, J., Price, L.L., Wasserman, R., Slora, E., et al.	2008
Comparative study of the cognitive sequelae of school-aged victims of Shaken Baby Syndrome	Stipanicic, Annie Nolin, Pierre Fortin, Gilles Gobeil, Marie-France	2008
What Predicts Injury from Physical Punishment? A Test of the Typologies of Violence Hypothesis	Gonzalez, Miriam Durrant, Joan E. Chabot, Martin Trocme, Nico Brown, Jason	2008