TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Femicides: a study in Brazilian state capital cities and large municipalities
JO  - Ciencia e Saude Coletiva
A1  - Meneghel, Stela Nazareth
A1  - da Rosa, Bruna Alexandra Rocha
A1  - Ceccon, Roger Flores
A1  - Hirakata, Vania Naomi
A1  - Danilevicz, Ian Meneghel
SP  - 2963
EP  - 2970
VL  - 22
IS  - 9
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1413-8123
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232017229.22732015
ID  - ref1
ER  -