Health Care Response to Domestic Violence Fact Sheet Email this page to a friend Domestic Violence: A pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors, including physical, sexual, and psychological attacks as well as economic coercion, that adults or adolescents use against their intimate partners. Prevalence: Domestic violence is virtually impossible to measure with absolute precision due to numerous complications including the societal stigma that inhibits victims from disclosing their abuse and the varying definitions of abuse …showed first 75 words of 511 total…

…showed last 75 words of 511 total…spent on abused women who utilized hospital services than on a random sample of general enrollees. The study concluded that early identification and treatment of victims and potential victims will most likely benefit health care systems in the long run.13 Identification of Domestic Violence: 92% of women who were physically abused by their partners did not discuss these incidents with their physicians; 57% did not discuss the incidents with anyone.14 Bibliography ebsco host: http://www.ftscp.com