Citation

Grisso JA, Schwarz DF, Hirschinger N, Sammel M, Brensinger CM, Santanna J, Lowe RA, Anderson E, Shaw LM, Bethel CA, Teeple L. LDI Issue Brief 2000; 5(4): 1-4.

Affiliation

University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12523342

Abstract

The national statistics are familiar by now: each year, more than 2 million women are raped and/or physically assaulted; more than one-third of them are injured during their most recent assault. Annually, more than 500,000 women seek medical services as a result of violence-related injuries, often from hospital emergency departments. But national statistics cannot fully capture the extent of violence experienced by women in inner-city areas, nor do they point to modifiable risk factors at a community level. This Issue Brief highlights a new study that investigates the circumstances and correlates of violent injuries among women in one urban, low-income community.

Language: en