Bibliographic information
GuidelineWHO Guidelines for the health sector response to child maltreatment
Year of Publication2019
Issuing InstitutionWorld Health Organization
Recommendation
Maintained
Written information on child maltreatment should be available in health-care settings in the form of posters, and pamphlets or leaflets (with appropriate warnings about taking them home in case that could compromise safety).
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Very low
Notes and Remarks
Written information should contain warnings that it might compromise safety, if aperpetrator finds the information it home. Information materials can be designed in away that it is not obvious at first sight that they contain information about childmaltreatment.
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Originally Developed
Guideline
Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women: WHO clinical and policy guidelines
Year2013
InstitutionWorld Health Organization