PHO Rounds: Inflicted Injuries Among Children and Youth During the Pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was hypothesized that stay-at-home policies would impact cases of violence, abuse, and neglect among children and youth, due to increased familial stressors.
This Public Health Ontario (PHO) Rounds presents the findings of a research program which examined the effect of pandemic policies on violence-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations of children and youth. It focuses on health administrative data in British Columbia and Ontario, as well as the setting, location and context of these preventable injuries using a sentinel, national data source.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Describe the current scientific literature outside of Ontario and British Columbia on inflicted violence injuries reported among children and youth.
• Discuss how the pandemic policies put in place in Ontario and British Columbia impacted inflicted violence injuries reported among children and youth compared to prior to the pandemic.
Presenter(s): Dr. Ian Pike and Dr. Sarah Richmond
The presentation can be found here: www.publicheal...