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Paid family leave's effect on hospital admissions for pediatric abusive head trauma
- Source :
- Injury Prevention. 22:442-445
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2016.
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Abstract
- Paediatric abusive head trauma (AHT) is a leading cause of fatal child maltreatment among young children. Current prevention efforts have not been consistently effective. Policies such as paid parental leave could potentially prevent AHT, given its impacts on risk factors for child maltreatment. To explore associations between California's 2004 paid family leave (PFL) policy and hospital admissions for AHT, we used difference-in-difference analyses of 1995–2011 US state-level data before and after the policy in California and seven comparison states. Compared with seven states with no PFL policies, California's 2004 PFL showed a significant decrease in AHT admissions in both
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Parents
Child abuse
medicine.medical_specialty
Poison control
Suicide prevention
California
Article
Occupational safety and health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
030225 pediatrics
Injury prevention
medicine
Craniocerebral Trauma
Humans
Child Abuse
030212 general & internal medicine
Policy Making
Psychiatry
Depression
business.industry
Infant, Newborn
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Infant
Human factors and ergonomics
Parental Leave
Family Leave
Hospitalization
Socioeconomic Factors
Income
Female
Parental leave
business
Stress, Psychological
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14755785 and 13538047
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Injury Prevention
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....50ebbc0dcbbd6fab31abaf5268fd0f9f