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Anja Heilmann
@_anjaheilmann
Associate Professor @UCL_DentalPH, working in #Epidemiology and #PublicHealth.
Jun 29, 2021 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Today in @TheLancet, our narrative review on #physicalpunishment & impact on children.

TL:DR: physical punishment does not work, increases behaviour difficulties and causes harm.

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1/12 We identified nearly 4k studies from around the world and reviewed the 69 highest quality studies to understand the impact of so-called "normative" physical punishment (spanking, smacking, hitting) which is still legal in many countries.

Key findings 👇

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Nov 9, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
#BerlinWall30

On this day 30 years ago I was twenty, and a student in East Berlin. I was at a party when we heard the news. Something I thought impossible all my life had happened - the wall was open. /1 We grabbed our beers and went to the checkpoint at the #Tränenpalast (palace of tears) where a big crowd was already waiting to be let through and on the S-Bahn train to West Berlin. And unbelievably, the border guards let us go! /2