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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2012. Social and Economic Costs of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13254.
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Social and Economic
Costs of Violence

WORKSHOP SUMMARY

Deepali M. Patel and Rachel M. Taylor, Rapporteurs

Forum on Global Violence Prevention

Board on Global Health

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE AND
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS

Washington, D.C.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2012. Social and Economic Costs of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13254.
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PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS OF VIOLENCE: THE VALUE OF PREVENTION1

MARK L. ROSENBERG (Chair), President and CEO, The Task Force for Global Health

MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE, Research Psychiatrist and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Public Health, New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University

PEGGY MURRAY, Senior Advisor for International Research, Office of the Director, National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

PAMELA B. TEASTER, Director of the Graduate Center for Gerontology, Chairperson of the Department of Gerontology, and Associate Dean for Research, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky

ELIZABETH WARD, Chairman, Violence Prevention Alliance, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus

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1 Institute of Medicine planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop, identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteurs and the institution.

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FORUM ON GLOBAL VIOLENCE PREVENTION

JACQUELYN C. CAMPBELL (Co-chair), Anna D. Wolf Chair and Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

MARK L. ROSENBERG (Co-chair), President and CEO, The Task Force for Global Health

CLARE ANDERSON, Deputy Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health and Human Services

FRANCES E. ASHE-GOINS, Deputy Director, Office on Women’s Health, Department of Health and Human Services

KATRINA BAUM, Senior Research Officer, Office of Research Partnerships, National Institute of Justice, Department of Justice

SUSAN BISSELL, Associate Director, Child Protection Section, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

ARTURO CERVANTES TREJO, Director General, National Center for Injury Prevention, Ministry of Health, Mexico

XINQI DONG, Associate Director, Rush Institute for Health Aging; Associate Professor of Medicine, Behavioral Sciences, and Gerontological Nursing, Rush University Medical Center

AMIE GIANINO, Senior Global Director, Beer & Better World, Anheuser-Busch InBev

KATHY GREENLEE, Assistant Secretary for Aging, Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services

RODRIGO V. GUERRERO, City Counselor, Cali, Colombia

JOHN R. HAYES, Global Strategy Leader for Neuroscience, Medical Affairs, Eli Lilly and Company

DAVID HEMENWAY, Director, Injury Control Research Center and the Youth Violence Prevention Center, Harvard School of Public Health

FRANCES HENRY, Advisor, F. Felix Foundation

MERCEDES S. HINTON, Program Officer, Initiative on Confronting Violent Crime, Open Society Institute

LARKE NAHME HUANG, Senior Advisor, Office of the Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services

L. ROWELL HUESMANN, Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Communication Studies Director, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

KEVIN JENNINGS, Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, Department of Education

CAROL M. KURZIG, President, Avon Foundation for Women

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JOANNE LACROIX, Manager, Family Violence Prevention Unit, Public Health Agency of Canada

JACQUELINE LLOYD, Health Scientist Administrator, Prevention Research Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse

BRIGID MCCAW, Medical Director, NCal Family Violence Prevention Program, Kaiser Permanente

JAMES A. MERCY, Special Advisor for Strategic Directions, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

PEGGY MURRAY, Senior Advisor for International Research, Office of the Director, National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

MICHAEL PHILLIPS, Director, Suicide Research and Prevention Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

COLLEEN SCANLON, Senior Vice President, Advocacy, Catholic Health Initiatives

KRISTIN SCHUBERT, Interim Team Director, Public Health and Program Officer, Vulnerable Populations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

EVELYN TOMASZEWSKI, Senior Policy Advisor, Human Rights and International Affairs, National Association of Social Workers

ELIZABETH WARD, Chairman, Violence Prevention Alliance, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus

Staff

DEEPALI M. PATEL, Program Officer

RACHEL M. TAYLOR, Research Associate

RACHEL E. PITTLUCK, Senior Program Assistant (until May 2011)

MEGAN M. PEREZ, Senior Program Assistant (from June 2011)

ELENA NIGHTINGALE, Scholar-in-Residence

KATE BURNS, Intern

JULIE WILTSHIRE, Financial Officer

PATRICK KELLEY, Board Director

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Reviewers

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

THERESA BETANCOURT, Assistant Professor of Child Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health; Director, Research Program on Children and Global Adversity, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights

JÜRGEN REHM, Director, Social and Epidemiological Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

GARY SLUTKIN, Executive Director, CeaseFire; Professor, Epidemiology and International Health, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

ELIZABETH WARD, Chairman, Violence Prevention Alliance, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus

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Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by ANNE C. PETERSEN, Research Professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine she was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the author and the institution.

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Measuring the social and economic costs of violence can be difficult, and most estimates only consider direct economic effects, such as productivity loss or the use of health care services. Communities and societies feel the effects of violence through loss of social cohesion, financial divestment, and the increased burden on the healthcare and justice systems. Initial estimates show that early violence prevention intervention has economic benefits. The IOM Forum on Global Violence Prevention held a workshop to examine the successes and challenges of calculating direct and indirect costs of violence, as well as the potential cost-effectiveness of intervention.

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