Avaliação do perfil dos pacientes atendidos com ferimentos por arma de fogo em um hospital da Rede Viva Sentinela

• Autor(a) principal: Maciel, Paulo Roberto
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3525
• topic: Violência; Causas externas; Armas de fogo; Ferimentos e lesões; Ferimentos por armas de fogo; Violence; External causes; Gunshot; Wounds and injuries; Injuries from firearms; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

The world violence is currently responsible , according to the World Health Organization (WHO) , more than 5 million deaths each year , and for every person who dies as a result of violence , many suffer from physical or mental sequelae resulting from injuries . In Brazil a serious problem closely linked to violence is the use of firearms . In the state of Goiás the death rate resulting from its use is troubling figuring therefore as a severe public health problem. To describe the sociodemographic profile of people with gunshot wounds treated at a big Emergency Hospital localized in Goiânia-Goiás-Brazil . Descriptive observational study with non-probability sample of convenience. Participants were inpatients in a big Emergency Hospital, with gunshot wounds in the period from January to March of 2013. Project approved by the Ethics Committee in Research of Emergency Hospital of Goiânia, 182123/2013. The study included 150 patients who suffered injuries from firearms lodged in a large hospital of Goiás It can be seen that the higher prevalence of injuries occurred in the victims were male (94.7 %), young people (67,3 %), nonwhite (72,0 %) and with incomes of up to two minimum wages (51,3 %). They are mostly people who are self-employed or salaried construction (62,3 %), with schooling up to 9 years (elementary school), and 120 of them (80,0%) were users of alcohol or drugs. This study identified that a large number of victims of gunshot wounds admitted for treatment are: young men, users of drugs or alcohol and the motivation for such injury has relation to drug traffic and debts. An approach from violence from the perspective of public health becomes important to analyze and identify data on its distribution and its social determinants.