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[Years of potential life lost by female homicide victims in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil].
- Source :
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Cadernos de saude publica [Cad Saude Publica] 2011 Sep; Vol. 27 (9), pp. 1721-30. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- This cross-sectional epidemiological study aimed to calculate the potential years of life lost by female homicide victims in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil, in 2003-2007. A database was used from the Operational Division for Information on Births and Deaths under the Recife Municipal Health Department. All death certificates for childbearing-age women were reviewed for the five-year period. The results showed a total of 12,120 potential years of life lost by these women, mostly young, black (88%), with unknown levels of schooling (78.2%), single (80%), in District III of the city, and murdered with firearms in their own homes. The specific mortality rate was 10.8 homicides per 100,000 childbearing-age women. The 43.3 years of life lost per woman express the city's characteristics, poverty levels, unemployment, population density, residential instability, and social inequality, exposing residents to social strife, crime, and violence.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Age Factors
Brazil epidemiology
Child
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Homicide ethnology
Humans
Middle Aged
Racial Groups
Retrospective Studies
Socioeconomic Factors
Time Factors
Young Adult
Crime Victims statistics & numerical data
Homicide statistics & numerical data
Life Expectancy ethnology
Mortality, Premature ethnology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Portuguese
- ISSN :
- 1678-4464
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Cadernos de saude publica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 21986600