作者
Marie Kruse, Jan Sørensen, Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Karin Helweg-Larsen
发表日期
2011/11
期刊
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
卷号
26
期号
17
页码范围
3494-3508
出版商
Sage Publications
简介
The aim of this study is to analyze the health care costs of violence against women. For the study, we used a register-based approach where we identified victims of violence and assessed their actual health care costs at individual level in a bottom-up analysis. Furthermore, we identified a reference population. We computed the attributable costs, that is, the excess health care costs for victims compared to an identified reference population of nonvictims. Only costs within the health care sector were included, that is, somatic and psychiatric hospital costs, costs within the primary health care sector and costs of prescription pharmaceuticals. We estimated the attributable health care costs of violence against women in Denmark, using a generalized linear model where health care costs were modeled as a function of age, childbirth, and exposure to violence. In addition we tested whether socioeconomic status, multiple …
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