@article{ref1,
title="Femicides: a study in Brazilian state capital cities and large municipalities",
journal="Ciencia e Saude Coletiva",
year="2017",
author="Meneghel, Stela Nazareth and da Rosa, Bruna Alexandra Rocha and Ceccon, Roger Flores and Hirakata, Vania Naomi and Danilevicz, Ian Meneghel",
volume="22",
number="9",
pages="2963-2970",
abstract="This study analyses the relationship between femicides and indicators of socio-economic condition, demography, access to communications, and health situation, in Brazilian state capitals and large-population municipalities. It is an ecological study using the standardized mean coefficient of female mortality due to aggression as a marker for femicide in the years 2007-09 and 2011-13. The Pearson Correlation test was used for the statistical analysis between the outcome and 17 independent variables, and those that were statistically significant (p < 0.05) were introduced into a multivariate linear regression model, using backward elimination. In the first three-year period the average rate of femicide was 4.5 deaths per 100,000 women, and in the second period it was 4.9/100,000. Poverty (β = -0.330; p = 0.006), Pentecostalism (β = 0.237; p = 0.002) and male mortality by aggression (β = 0.841; p = 0.000) were associated with femicides. The negative association between poverty and feminine deaths indicates a paradoxical relationship, in that women who die in the richer regions are mostly poor. A relationship was also found between gender violence, fundamentalist religious beliefs, and urban violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1413-8123",
doi="10.1590/1413-81232017229.22732015",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232017229.22732015"
}