Katherine Ellison in Knowable Magazine:
The statistics are staggering — and so is the toll on society. Throughout the world, roughly 27 percent of women ages 15 to 49 experience violence by intimate male partners at least once during their lifetimes. The scourge costs society trillions of dollars and seriously harms children’s mental health.
“Each case of violence in a woman’s life is a tragedy for herself and for those around her, affecting not only the woman and her health and well-being, but also her family and community,” write two public health researchers in the 2024 Annual Review of Public Health. In their article, Susan B. Sorenson of the University of Pennsylvania and Heidi Stöckl of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich detail the scope of this urgent public health issue and how it might be more vigorously addressed.
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