Sexual Violence in America: Public Funding and Social Priority.

• Autores: Randall Waechter, Van Ma
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 105, Nº. 12, 2015, págs. 2430-2437
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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 othermajor public health issues, it receives a fraction of the public funds that they receive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]