Sexual Violence in America: Public Funding and Social Priority.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302860 and PMC identifier 4638240.
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Financing, Government
- Health Priorities
- Sex Offenses