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Bonomi uncovers staggering toll of intimate partner violence on women's health
CNN and NPR recently featured Amy Bonomi when her article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed that an unexpectedly high number (44%) of the insured women she studied had experienced intimate partner violence, or IPV. She is the first researcher to show that the health of women who experienced recent physical or sexual IPV is comparable or worse than the health of persons with diabetes and some forms of cancer. Bonomi, of the Department of Human Development and Family Science, has been a co-investigator of more than $3 million in federal funding. Her CDC study looks at neighborhood risk and protective factors for IPV because IPV occurs within the context of broader communities.
"The number of women affected by intimate partner violence is roughly 4 times higher than the number affected by breast cancer in their lifetime," Dr. Bonomi says, "yet the problem receives much less attention."
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