Overview
Project status: Completed
Maltreatment of children has a profound effect on their mental and physical health and well-being. Control of this problem, as with other "social diseases", raises many challenges.
In most societies around the world, researchers and policy-makers, parents, teachers and young people themselves are becoming increasingly aware of the complexity and pervasiveness of child abuse and neglect.
- Research leader
- External collaborators
Prof Chen Jingqi, Peking University Health Sciences Centre, Beijing, China
- Organisational unit
- Lead unit Faculty of Health Other units
- Research area
- Social Determinants of Health
Professor Michael DunneDetails
Professor Michael Dunne and Professor Chen Jingqi.
In most societies around the world, researchers and policy-makers, parents, teachers and young people themselves are becoming increasingly aware of the complexity and pervasiveness of child abuse and neglect.
In China, the Institute of Child and Adolescent Health at Peking University and the QUT School of Public Health and Social Work have collaborated in a program of epidemiological research since 1998.
Working in partnership with UNICEF, the Ford Foundation, SIDA and other donors, the researchers have completed surveys with thousands of adolescents, parents and teachers and school health personnel in ten provinces.
Findings to date have been published in Chinese and English language journals and shared with the national and international media. It is clear that the child abuse is not uncommon, and that severe corporal punishment by parents and teachers is correlated with mental health problems, as reported by adolescents.
This ongoing research has also given clear directions for campaigns to raise community awareness, especially among parents and teachers.
Partnerships
- Institute of Child and Adolescent Health
- UNICEF
- Ford Foundation
- SIDA
