RT Article
T1 “The Little Money I Get Is Used to Buy Drugs”: A Qualitative Exploration of the Economic Cost of Intimate Partner Violence for Female Survivors in Ghana
JF Violence against women
VO 30
IS 14
SP 3498
OP 3514
A1 Apatinga, Gervin Ane
A1 Tenkorang, Eric Y.
A2 Tenkorang, Eric Y.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1908930209
AB Empirical research confirms the economic costs of intimate partner violence (IPV) for women. Yet, scholarship on this topic is lacking in Ghana, where IPV against women is commonplace. We used in-depth interviews with 15 female survivors of IPV in the Eastern Region to examine the economic costs of IPV for women. Findings showed that the economic costs were both direct and indirect. Direct costs included out-of-pocket payments for medical and nonmedical services, while indirect costs included diminished work abilities, increased absenteeism from work, and lowered work productivity. Ghanaian policymakers must enforce and strengthen policies to prevent violence against women.
K1 Violence
K1 Women
K1 Ghana
K1 economic cost
K1 Africa
DO 10.1177/10778012231182408