title: Sexual Violence in America: Public Funding and Social Priority.
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.
authors.affiliation: Randall Waechter is with the Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation, St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies. Van Ma is a student in the School of Medicine, St. George's University.
authors.forename: Randall
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Waechter
authors.affiliation: Randall Waechter is with the Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation, St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies. Van Ma is a student in the School of Medicine, St. George's University.
authors.forename: Van
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D011902:Rape / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012307:Risk Factors; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology