August 13, 2007 — A new fact sheet from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control estimates that costs associated with nonfatal injuries and deaths due to violence totaled more than $70 billion in 2000.
Most of this cost ($64.8 billion or 92%) was due to lost productivity. However, an estimated $5.6 billion was spent on medical care for the more than 2.5 million injuries due to interpersonal and self-directed violence. The fact sheet includes ways to reduce the economic burden of these injuries.
For more details see the fact sheet on “The Cost of Violence in the United States” from the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). To learn more about NIOSH’s research to reduce violence in the workplace, see the NIOSH Safety and Health Topic page on “Occupational Violence.”
