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—
Describes briefly the development of the requested study;
Presents findings for the estimated incidence, prevalence, and costs of nonfatal and fatal IPV;
Identifies future research needs;
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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Content Source: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention
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