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• Violence is a serious public health problem in the United States.
• Violence affects people at every stage of life, from infancy to old age.
• Violence-related mortality
• Approximately 51,000 people die from violence annually in the United States.
• In 2007, more than 18,000 people were victims of homicide.
• In 2007, more than 34,000 people took their own lives.
• Economic burden of violence-related deaths
• Estimating the economic burden helps identify resources that could be saved through cost-effective violence prevention efforts.
• The total cost of these deaths was $47.2 billion.
• Work loss costs accounted for $47 billion.
• Medical treatment costs accounted for $215 million.