Deaths from homicides: a historical series
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| Authors: | Flávia Azevedo de Mattos Moura Costa Ruth Fran?a Cizino da Trindade Claudia Benedita dos Santos |
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| Affiliation: | 2.PhD, Assistant Professor, Departamento de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, BA, Brazil;3.PhD, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil;4.PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: to describe mortality from homicides in Itabuna, in the State of Bahia. METHOD: study with hybrid, ecological and time-trend design. The mortality coefficientsper 1,000 inhabitants, adjusted by the direct technique, proportional mortality bysex and age range, and Potential Years of Life Lost were all calculated. RESULTS: since 2005, the external causes have moved from third to second most-common causeof death, with homicides being responsible for the increase. In the 13 yearsanalyzed, homicides have risen 203%, with 94% of these deaths occurring among themale population. Within this group, the growth occurred mainly in the age rangefrom 15 to 29 years of age. It was ascertained that 83% of the deaths were causedby firearms; 57.2% occurred in public thoroughfares; and 98.4% in the urban zone.In 2012, the 173 homicides resulted in 7,837 potential years of life lost, witheach death causing, on average, the loss of 45.3 years. CONCLUSIONS: mortality by homicide in a medium-sized city in Bahia reaches levels observed inthe big cities of Brazil in the 1980s, evidencing that the phenomenon ofcriminality - formerly predominant only in the big urban centers - is advancinginto the rural area of Brazil, causing changes in the map of violent homicide inBrazil. |
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| Keywords: | Homicide Mortality Violence |
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