-
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Profile of female deaths by homicide in the city of Goiânia
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(suppl 4):e20180985
07-31-2020
Resumo
ORIGINAL ARTICLEProfile of female deaths by homicide in the city of Goiânia
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(suppl 4):e20180985
07-31-2020DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0985
Visualizações0Ver maisABSTRACT
Objectives:
to identify the female homicide profile in the city of Goiânia.
Methods:
a cross-sectional, descriptive study that characterized female deaths by homicide from 2008 to 2015. They occurred in Goiânia, and registered in the Mortality Information System. Cases of homicide of women aged ≥ 10 years were eligible. Other causes of death were excluded. Descriptive statistical analysis with frequencies.
Results:
three hundred seventy-six women died from assault, with an increase in the percentage of deaths annually. Most of the victims were young (57.5%), single (78.8%), mixed-ethnicity (61.1%) and with low education (58.4%). The most frequent means of assault was firearm (64.0%). The health districts with the highest record of female deaths due to assault were southwest, center and northwest.
Conclusions:
the predominant profile of women victims of femicide was young, mixed-ethnicity, single, with low level of education and living in less favored regions.
-
REVISÃO
Critical path of women in situation of violence: an integrative literature review
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2019;72(suppl 3):321-332
12-13-2019
Resumo
REVISÃOCritical path of women in situation of violence: an integrative literature review
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2019;72(suppl 3):321-332
12-13-2019DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0265
Visualizações0Ver maisABSTRACT
Objective:
To identify Brazilian and international scientific evidence on the critical path of women in situations of violence.
Method:
Integrative literature review developed in four databases and two electronic portals, in January 2017. Twenty-one full articles in English, Portuguese or Spanish from original researches were included in the time cut from 1994 to 2016, and which presented critical path elements, even without using this concept.
Results:
The critical path of women in situations of violence is constituted of elements related to their perceptions, actions and previous experiences regarding availability and quality of services, social representations of public servers and community and the results obtained in the search for help.
Conclusion:
Critical path elements are decisive for the women, and can promote, inhibit or delay the beginning of the route and consequently the end of situations of violence experienced by these women.