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Health care costs for abused women are significant
01-22-2007 · EurekAlert!Women with a history of abuse by intimate partners have significantly higher health care costs and utilization than women with no history of such abuse, according to a study in the February 2007 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The higher costs and utilization continued long after the abuse ended, the research team from Group Health, the University of Washington, and the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (HIPRC) found.
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