Citation

Cavalcante GMS, de Macedo Bernardino Í, da Nóbrega LM, Ferreira RC, Ferreira e Ferreira E, d'Ávila S. Spat. Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2018; 25: 49-56.

Affiliation

Department of Dentistry and Public Health, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Av. Antônio Carlos, No. 6627, Campus Pampulha, Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Electronic address: davila@ccbs.uepb.edu.br.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.sste.2018.02.001

PMID

29751892

Abstract

The aim of study was to describe trends in physical violence among Brazilian victims and investigate spatial vulnerability of the location of victim's residences. This study performed an ecological-level longitudinal analysis, examining violence rates over 4 years. Cases of 4795 victims of physical aggression attended at a Center of Legal Medicine were investigated. Trend analysis was used to evaluate the data, with the creation of polynomial regression models (p < 0.05). Violence rates showed significant temporal variations according to sociodemographic characteristics of victims (p < 0.05) and the circumstances of aggressions (p < 0.05). Moreover, there was a significant increase in violence rate in the North (R² = 16.1%; p = 0.019) and South (R² = 18.4%; p = 0.010), whereas the rural zone (R² = 10.1%; p = 0.028) presented a decrease. The findings highlight the need for protection policies that address spatial-temporal aspects.

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Language: en

Keywords

Aggression; Public Health; Violence; Wounds and injuries