Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care

Selected References

Preventive Health Care, 2000 Update: Prevention of Child Maltreatment

Prepared  by Harriet L. MacMillan, MD, FRCPC, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, McMaster University, and Canadian Centre for Studies of Children at Risk.

These recommendations were finalized by the Task Force in June 1999

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