Citation

Gold L, Norman R, Devine A, Feder G, Taft AJ, Hegarty KL. Violence Against Women 2011; 17(3): 389-403.

Affiliation

Deakin University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801211398639

PMID

21343165

Abstract

Intimate partner violence (IPV) creates a substantial burden of disease and significant costs to families, communities, and governments. Building the evidence for effective interventions to reduce violence and its sequelae requires increased use of economic evaluation to inform policy through the analysis of costs and potential savings of interventions. The authors review existing economic evaluations and present case studies of current research from the United Kingdom and Australia to illustrate the strengths and limitations of two approaches to generating economic evidence: economic evaluation alongside randomized controlled trials and economic modeling. Economic evaluation should always be considered in the design of IPV intervention research.

Language: en