eMJA: Child protection and the health professional: mandatory responding is our duty

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Child protection and the health professional: mandatory responding is our duty

Peter M Winterton

MJA 2009; 191 (5): 246-247

Don’t just report, respond — inaction injures children

Every Australian state has enacted mandatory reporting of child abuse. Child abuse is a ubiquitous problem affecting at least one in 13 children, and among Indigenous Australians, this rate is higher.1 The most important comorbidities for child abuse — poverty, domestic violence, mental ill health and substance misuse2 — are seen by all health professionals on a daily basis.

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