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Sexual violence in America: Public funding and social priority

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  • Waechter, R.
  • Ma, V.

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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.

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  • Waechter, R. & Ma, V., 2015. "Sexual violence in America: Public funding and social priority," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 105(12), pages 2430-2437.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2015.302860_2
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302860
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