title: Cost-Effectiveness of Health Care Interventions to Address Intimate Partner Violence: What Do We Know and What Else Should We Look for?
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.
authors.affiliation: Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia, lisa.gold@deakin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gold
authors.affiliation: University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Norman
authors.affiliation: Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Devine
authors.affiliation: University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Gene
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Feder
authors.affiliation: La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Angela J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Taft
authors.affiliation: University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Kelsey L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Hegarty
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence; D008297:Male; D006113:United Kingdom