The health and economic benefits of reducing intimate partner violence: an Australian example

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Economic outcomes from reducing the prevalence of intimate partner violence

Economic outcomes	Feasible reduction target^a
		95 % uncertainty interval
	Mean (AUD million)	Lower limit (AUD million)	Upper limit (AUD million)
Health sector costs	38	n/a	n/a
Production Costs FCA	88	29	185
Recruitment and training costs	6	n/a	n/a
Taxation effects FCA^b	16	4	36
Leisure based production	98	61	144
Home based production	147	102	195
Total production FCA^c	377	227	461
Sensitivity analysis
Production Costs HCA	434	253	621
Taxation effects HCA^b	57	29	87
Total production HCA^c	678	480	884

All estimates uncorrected for joint effects of the presence of multiple risk factors in individuals. Health sector, leisure and home based production based on females 15+ years. Production, recruitment and training and taxation effects based on females 15–64 years
HCA human capital approach, FCA friction cost approach (preferred conservative estimate), n/a not available, unable to be estimated based on the data that were available
^aThese are not estimates of immediately realizable cash savings
^bTaxation is treated as a transfer payment and should not be added to production effects
^cTotal production is the sum of workforce production costs, household- and leisure-based production

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