Costs of Intimate
Partner Violence Against Women in the United States
Recognizing the need
to better measure both the
scope of the problem of intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as resulting economic costs—in
particular, those related to health care—Congress funded the Centers for
Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) to conduct a study to obtain national estimates of
the occurrence of IPV-related injuries, to estimate their costs to the
health care system, and
to recommend strategies to prevent IPV and its consequences.
The
resulting report,
Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States—
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Describes
briefly the development of the requested study;
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Presents
findings for the estimated incidence, prevalence, and costs
of nonfatal and fatal IPV;
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Identifies
future research needs;
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Highlights
CDC’s research priorities for IPV prevention.
A press
release about the report is available from CDC's media relations
website.
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