Sexual violence in America: Public funding and social priority

R. Waechter and V. Ma

American Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 105, issue 12, 2430-2437

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.

Keywords: crime victim; epidemiology; female; financial management; health care planning; human; incidence; male; prevention and control; psychology; rape; resource allocation; risk factor; sexual crime; statistics and numerical data; United States, Crime Victims; Female; Financing, Government; Health Priorities; Humans; Incidence; Male; Rape; Resource Allocation; Risk Factors; Sex Offenses; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302860

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