Brzank P
Social Science and Public Health Institute, Berlin, BRD.
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 2009 Mar;52(3):330-8. doi: 10.1007/s00103-009-0795-7.
Due to prevalence as well as serious health and social impacts, domestic violence against women is considered a problem of high relevance for victims themselves and for the society as a whole. Empirical data also prove this correlation for Germany. Nevertheless the extensive implications and their interdependency have hardly been examined. In this article, a definition of domestic violence is given followed by a brief introduction of the problem. Next an overview of the results from national and international surveys regarding the social consequences and the economic costs of domestic violence is presented. The burden for following generations becomes obvious, including the consequences for family and social relationship structures, for victims' occupational situations, productivity loss, high risk for poverty, homelessness and the interdependencies on health status. Estimations from international studies on the societal costs illustrate the economic dimension.
由于家庭暴力侵害妇女行为的普遍性及其对健康和社会的严重影响，它被视为对受害者自身乃至整个社会都具有高度相关性的问题。实证数据也证明了德国存在这种关联。然而，其广泛的影响及其相互依存关系却几乎未得到审视。本文给出了家庭暴力的定义，随后简要介绍了该问题。接下来概述了国内和国际调查中关于家庭暴力的社会后果和经济成本的结果。对后代的负担变得显而易见，包括对家庭和社会关系结构、受害者职业状况、生产力损失、贫困、无家可归的高风险以及与健康状况的相互依存关系的影响。国际研究对社会成本的估计说明了其经济层面。
