Aspectos Epidemiológicos do Feminicídio no Município de Goiânia, Goiás

Abstract

Violence against women has been considered a world public health issue for years, and the gender-based violence is its leading cause. Physical, psychological, and sexual aggressions against women may end in their death, usually by homicide. The intimate partner is, most of the times, the main aggressor. The objective of this study was to characterize the homicides of women, as well as describe the sociodemographic traits of the victims, from the occurrence of the homicide to its distribution in the seven sanitary districts of the city of Goiânia, Goiás State. A descriptive study was carried out with the data recorded on the System of Information on Mortality (SIM) between 2008 and 2015. The sanitary districts of the city with the largest number of female homicide were identified based on the variable place of residence of the victims. The secondary data were collected through the SIM, using the International Classification of Diseases, 10th review (ICD-10), for the classification of the femicides. A total of 376 homicides of women were recorded between 2008 and 2015, presenting an increase in its proportion in this period from 8.2% in 2008 to 12.5% in 2015. Most of the victims were young women at 20-39 years of age (57.5%), who were single, brown (61.1%), and had low education level (58.4%). Regarding the aggression means, firearms (64.0%) followed by penetrating or cutting objects (25.3%) stood out. The more frequent site of death occurrence was the public road (36.2%); as for the time, the months of January, April, and September, in the weekends, stood out. The sanitary districts where more female death due to aggression took place were Southwest (19.5%), followed by Campinas-City Center (17.3%), and Northeast (16.7%). Therefore, the predominant profile of women, victims of femicide, was young, brown, single, with low education level, and resident of the poorest regions of the city.