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Profile of female deaths by homicide in the city of Goiânia
- Source :
- Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
- Publisher :
- Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem.
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Abstract
- ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify the female homicide profile in the city of Goiânia. Methods: a cross-sectional, descriptive study that characterized female deaths by homicide from 2008 to 2015. They occurred in Goiânia, and registered in the Mortality Information System. Cases of homicide of women aged ≥ 10 years were eligible. Other causes of death were excluded. Descriptive statistical analysis with frequencies. Results: three hundred seventy-six women died from assault, with an increase in the percentage of deaths annually. Most of the victims were young (57.5%), single (78.8%), mixed-ethnicity (61.1%) and with low education (58.4%). The most frequent means of assault was firearm (64.0%). The health districts with the highest record of female deaths due to assault were southwest, center and northwest. Conclusions: the predominant profile of women victims of femicide was young, mixed-ethnicity, single, with low level of education and living in less favored regions.
Details
- Language :
- English, Spanish; Castilian, Portuguese
- ISSN :
- 19840446 and 00347167
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.0e1dca7bf60449f584f41bbde4c98dfa
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0985