The Facts~

One in four women (25%) has experienced domestic violence in her lifetime.
(The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The National Institute of Justice, Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence, July     2000. The Commonwealth Fund, Health Concerns Across a Woman’s Lifespan: 1998 Survey of Women’s Health, 1999)

On average, more than three women and one man are murdered by their intimate partners in this country every day. In 2000, 1,247 women were killed by an intimate partner. The same year, 440 men were killed by an intimate partner. Intimate partner homicides accounted for 30% of the murders of women and 5% percent of the murders of men.
(Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001, February 2003. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S. 1993-2004, 2006.)

Most intimate partner homicides occur between spouses, though boyfriends/girlfriends have committed about the same number of homicides in recent years.
(Bureau of Justice Statistics, Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S. 1993-2004, 2006.)

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The costs of intimate partner rape, physical assault, and stalking exceed $5.8 billion each
year, nearly $4.1 billion of which is for direct medical and mental health care services.
The total costs of IPV also include nearly $0.9 billion in lost productivity from paid work
and household chores for victims of nonfatal IPV and $0.9 billion in lifetime earnings
lost by victims of IPV homicide. The largest proportion of the costs is derived from
physical assault victimization because that type of IPV is the most prevalent. The largest
component of IPV-related costs is health care, which accounts for more than two-thirds of
the total costs.

Violence against women is a substantial public health problem in the United States.
According to data from the criminal justice system, hospital and medical records, mental
health records, social services, and surveys, thousands of women are injured or killed
each year as a result of violence, many by someone they are involved with or were
involved with intimately. Nearly one-third of female homicide victims reported in police
records are killed by an intimate partner (Federal Bureau of Investigation 2001).
Intimate partner violence—or IPV— is violence committed by a spouse,
ex-spouse, or current or former boyfriend or girlfriend. It occurs among both heterosexual and same-sex couples and is often a repeated offense. Both men and women are victims of IPV, but the literature indicates that women are much more likely than men to suffer physical, and probably psychological, injuries from IPV (Brush 1990; Gelles 1997; Rand and Strom 1997; Rennison and Welchans 2000).

IPV results in physical injury, psychological trauma, and sometimes death (Gelles 1997;
Kernic, Wolf and Holt 2000; Rennison and Welchans 2000; Sorenson and Saftlas 1994).
The consequences of IPV can last a lifetime. Abused women experience more physical
health problems and have a higher occurrence of depression, drug and alcohol abuse,
and suicide attempts than do women who are not abused (Golding 1996; Campbell,
Sullivan and Davidson 1995; Kessler et al. 1994; Kaslow et al. 1998; Moscicki 1989).
They also use health care services more often (Miller, Cohen and Rossman 1993).




A growing body of evidence demonstrates the health consequences of intimate partner
violence against women (Coker, Smith, Bethea, King and McKeown 2000; Kernic,
Wolf and Holt 2000). However, the economic costs of IPV remain largely unknown.
Previous cost estimates range from $1.7 billion to $10 billion annually (Straus 1986;
Gelles and Straus 1990; Meyer 1992), but they are believed to underestimate the true
economic impact of this type of violence (Institute for Women’s Policy Research 1995).


There was so much to show you so I have made sure to include the link as well as the title information so that you may read it all yourself.  This is just one of thousands of reports, it's staggering how much this affects our health care.  Something has to change don't you think?

This was taken from:
Costs of Intimate Partner Violence
Against Women in the United States
Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/ipv_cost/ipvbook-final-feb18.pdf