Resumen

LOREDO ABDALA, Arturo; MONROY LLAGUNO, Daniella Alejandra  y  CASAS MUNOZ, Abigail. Child mistreatment: Basic concepts of a legal-social-medical pathology. Rev. Fac. Med. (Méx.) [online]. 2013, vol.56, n.6, pp.5-23. ISSN 2448-4865.

Currently, pediatricians, family and general practitioners as well as interns and physisians doing their social service in the Faculty of Medicine are facing a change in the epidemiology of pediatric diseases and the availability of laboratory and imaging tests. A medical problem they will face daily, is child abuse (ChA). This article emphasizes the need to understand it as a medical social and legal problem. We present a definition used in the National Institute of Pediatrics, the current name of ChA according to ICD-10, the variants of this problem, the differential diagnosis, the characteristics of the three basic elements for its development as well as the strategies required to comprehensive care and basic conclusions.

Palabras llave : Child abuse; physical abuse; sexual abuse; pschologycal abuse; comprehensive care.