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Attributing Selected Costs to Intimate Partner Violence in a Sample of Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners: A Social Determinants of Health Approach

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  • Colleen Varcoe
  • Olena Hankivsky
  • Marilyn Ford-Gilboe
  • Judith Wuest
  • Piotr Wilk

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Selected costs associated with intimate partner violence were estimated for a community sample of 309 Canadian women who left abusive male partners on average 20 months previously. Total annual estimated costs of selected public- and private-sector expenditures attributable to violence were $13,162.39 per woman. This translates to a national annual cost of $6.9 billion for women aged 19-65 who have left abusive partners; $3.1 billion for those experiencing violence within the past three years. Results indicate that costs continue long after leaving, and call for recognition in policy that leaving does not coincide with ending violence.

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  • Colleen Varcoe & Olena Hankivsky & Marilyn Ford-Gilboe & Judith Wuest & Piotr Wilk, 2011. "Attributing Selected Costs to Intimate Partner Violence in a Sample of Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners: A Social Determinants of Health Approach," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 37(3), pages 359-380, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:37:y:2011:i:3:p:359-380
    DOI: 10.3138/cpp.37.3.359
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    1. Sepali Guruge & Marilyn Ford-Gilboe & Joan Samuels-Dennis & Colleen Varcoe & Piotr Wilk & Judith Wuest, 2012. "Rethinking Social Support and Conflict: Lessons from a Study of Women Who Have Separated from Abusive Partners," Nursing Research and Practice, Hindawi, vol. 2012, pages 1-10, September.
    2. Meffert, Susan M. & McCulloch, Charles E. & Neylan, Thomas C. & Gandhi, Monica & Lund, Crick, 2015. "Increase of perceived frequency of neighborhood domestic violence is associated with increase of women's depression symptoms in a nationally representative longitudinal study in South Africa," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 131(C), pages 89-97.
    3. Claire V. Crooks & Jennifer Zwicker & Lana Wells & Ray Hughes & Amanda Langlois & J.C. Herb Emery, 2017. "Estimating Costs and Benefits Associated with Evidence-Based Violence Prevention: Four Case Studies Based on the Fourth R Program," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 10(10), May.

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