Health Care

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  1. The costs of intimate partner violence exceed 5.8 billion each year, 4.1 billion of which is for direct medical and mental health care services.
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  2. Clinical studies have proven the effectiveness of a two minute screening for early detection of abuse of pregnant women and additional studies have shown that a 10 minute intervention was proven highly effective in increasing the safety of the abused women. Get the Facts: Health Care and Domestic Violence


  3. Homicide is the second leading cause of traumatic death for pregnant and recently pregnant women in the U.S. accounting for 31 percent of maternal injury deaths.
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  4. As many as two-thirds of adolescents who become pregnant were sexually or physically abused at some time in their lives.
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  5. In study of 474 adolescent mothers on public assistance found that 51% experienced birth control sabotage by a dating partner.
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