Sexual Violence in America: Public Funding and Social Priority

We compared lifetime risk, annual incidence, and annual economic burden of sexual violence with other major public health issues in the United States: cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. With public funding data from 2013, we examined how much public funding is allocated to these...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2015-12, Vol.105 (12), p.2430-2437
Main Authors: Waechter, Randall, Ma, Van
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Angina pectoris
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular diseases
Chronic illnesses
Crime Victims - psychology
Diabetes
Domestic violence
Economic impact
Estimates
Ethics
Female
Financing, Government - statistics & numerical data
Funding
Health Administration
Health Policy
Health Priorities
Heart attacks
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Incidence
Injury/Emergency Care/Violence
Male
Medical diagnosis
Mental health
Post traumatic stress disorder
Public health
PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS
Rape
Rape - prevention & control
Rape - psychology
Rape - statistics & numerical data
Resource Allocation
Risk Factors
Sex crimes
Sex Offenses - prevention & control
Sex Offenses - psychology
Sex Offenses - statistics & numerical data
Sexual abuse
Sexual assault
Sexual Health
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social Science
STD
Stress
Stroke
Studies
United States - epidemiology
Vagina
Womens health
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Summary:We compared lifetime risk, annual incidence, and annual economic burden of sexual violence with other major public health issues in the United States: cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. With public funding data from 2013, we examined how much public funding is allocated to these public health issues as a proxy of the social priority of addressing each of them. Although sexual violence is as prevalent as and more costly than are these other major public health issues, it receives a fraction of the public funds that they receive.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302860