Waechter Randall, Ma Van
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.
Am J Public Health. 2015 Dec;105(12):2430-7. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302860. Epub 2015 Oct 15.
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.
我们将性暴力的终生风险、年发病率和年度经济负担与美国其他主要公共卫生问题进行了比较:心血管疾病、癌症、糖尿病和艾滋病毒/艾滋病。利用2013年的公共资金数据,我们研究了分配给这些公共卫生问题的公共资金数额,以此作为解决这些问题的社会优先程度的一个指标。尽管性暴力与这些其他主要公共卫生问题一样普遍,且成本更高,但它获得的公共资金却只是它们的一小部分。