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Citation

Waechter R, Ma V. Am. J. Public Health 2015; 105(12): 2430-2437.

Affiliation

Randall Waechter is with the Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation, St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies. Van Ma is a student in the School of Medicine, St. George's University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Public Health Association)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2015.302860

PMID

26469639

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. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print October 15, 2015: e1-e8. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302860).


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