TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Sexual Violence A1 - Hipp, Tracy N. A1 - DeGue, Sarah A2 - Boulton, Matthew L. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. PY - 2022 T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e AB - Sexual violence is a major public health problem that exacts a toll on the health and well-being of millions of individuals, communities, and broader society. Decades of research have improved our understanding of the nature and scope of the problem, including disparities in the burden of sexual violence across populations. Researchers have also documented the substantial short- and long-term effects of sexual violence on survivors and estimated the economic burden to society that results. In recent years, the field has made strides by identifying evidence-based approaches for primary prevention of sexual violence at each level of the social ecology. Perhaps most importantly, the field has begun to move toward a focus on shared risk and protective factors for co-occurring and interconnected forms of violence, a new strategic direction for violence prevention aimed at maximizing the impact of prevention efforts and resources. This chapter reviews what we know about the nature and burden of sexual violence—and how we can prevent it. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/03 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182670359 ER -