NCJ Number
234248
Journal
Violence Against Women Volume: 17 Issue: 3 Dated: March 2011 Pages: 389-403
Date Published
March 2011
Length
15 pages
Annotation
This study examined the effects of intimate partner violence (IPV).
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. (Published Abstract)