A key strategy in preventing intimate partner violence is the promotion of respectful, nonviolent intimate partner relationships through individual, community, and societal level change.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is committed to ensuring all Americans, especially those at risk for intimate partner violence (IPV), live their lives to their fullest potential. A key strategy in preventing IPV is the promotion of respectful, nonviolent intimate partner relationships through individual, community, and societal level change.
Intimate Partner Violence as a Public Health Problem
Intimate partner violence includes physical violence, sexual violence, threats of physical or sexual violence, and emotional abuse by a current or former spouse or non-marital partner. IPV exists along a continuum from a single episode of violence to ongoing battering.
IPV facts:
- In 2007, 2349 people in the United States died at the hands of an intimate partner.
- The National Violence Against Women survey found that 22.1% of women and 7.4% of men experienced physical forms of IPV at some point in their lives.
- In the same survey, 7.7% of women or an estimated 201,394 reported being raped by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
- Victims of severe IPV lose nearly 8 million days of paid work-the equivalent of more than 32,000 full-time jobs-and almost 5.6 million days of household productivity each year
- The medical care, mental health services, and lost productivity (e.g., time away from work) costs of IPV against women was an estimated $5.8 billion in 1995. Updated to 2003 dollars, that is more than $8.3 billion.
Prevention
All forms of IPV are preventable. The key to prevention is focusing on the first time someone hurts a partner (called first-time perpetration). Knowledge about the factors that prevent IPV is lacking. CDC is working to better understand the developmental pathways and social circumstances that lead to this type of violence. In addition, the agency is helping organizations evaluate the effectiveness of strategies, programs and policies to reduce the perpetration of intimate partner violence.
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