SILENCED WOMEN: FEMALE MORTALITY FROM AGGRESSION IN BRAZIL

• Autor(a) principal: Aragão, Conceição de Maria Castro de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Mascarenhas, Márcio Denis Medeiros, Rodrigues, Malvina Thaís Pacheco, Andrade, Jesusmar Ximenes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3180
• topic: Mulheres; Agressão; Mortalidade; Violência contra a mulher; Estudos de séries temporais; Mortalidade feminina por agressão; Mujeres; Agresión; Mortalidad; Violencia contra la mujer; Estudios de series temporales; Women; Aggression; Mortality; Violence against women; Time series studies

Female deaths from aggression are often performed by the opposite gender, either partners or former partners of the victims, with situations of physical, sexual and psychological abuse. The objective of this article is to analyze the temporal trend of female mortality from aggression and its factors in Brazil from 2000 to 2017. This is a time series study on female mortality from aggression in all age groups in Brazil. Data from the Mortality Information System and population information obtained from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics were extracted. The variables race / skin color, age, years of study, place of occurrence of deaths and chapter XX of ICD-10 were investigated, in the categories with codes from X-85 to Y-09 and Y-87. In the study period, 75,113 women died from aggression. Most of the victims were from 20 to 39 years old, self-declared brown (49.3%), with four to seven years of schooling (27.7%), with death most frequently registered in public streets and at home (28.8 % and 28.6%, respectively). In the same period, there was an increase in the trend in female mortality from aggression in Brazil (annual percent change [APC]: 1.09; 95% CI: 0.07; 2.12). There was a percentage increase in burn / smoke aggressions (APC: 4.99; 95% CI: 3.25; 6.76), sharp object (APC: 3.07; 95% CI: 1.72; 4.43) and hanging and drowning (APC: 1.96; 95% CI: 0.71; 3.23). In conclusion, the increase in the trend of female mortality due to aggression in some regions of the country, especially among young women, shows the need for public and social policies that are more adequate to the specificities of the different regions of the country.