Map of homicides by firearms: profile of the victims and the assaults

Abstract

Objective: Describing the profile of victims and assaults by gunshot, where the outcome was death. Method: An ecological study conducted in the city of Maceió/AL, in 2012. Data were collected from the death statements. The variables studied were: the death circumstances, gender, age, marital status, place, date, time, month and proportion according to the occurring neighborhood. Results: The homicide mortality rate was 65.2 per 100,000 inhabitants, with 130.6 per 100,000 men and 7.8 per 100,000 women. Of the total number of homicides, 93.6% of the victims were men. The age group between 15 and 29 years of age was the most affected, with 68.8%. In 97.6% of cases the death occurred at the site of aggression, 74.1% in the streets. In relation to the date, 54.2% of cases occurred between Friday and Sunday. 59.7% of the homicides were concentrated in seven neighborhoods. Conclusion: The map of violence presented shows heterogeneous areas for the occurrence of assaults with firearms, characterizing the existing urban inequality in violence distribution.

Análise retrospectiva de 103 casos de lesão diafragmática operados em um centro de trauma

“…The findings on mortality are in agreement with other studies evaluating blunt and penetrating trauma, which found incidence of death varying from 7.8% to 32.1% 3,4,[16][17][18][19] . These same studies found mortalities ranging from 4% to 20.1% for penetrating trauma 3,4,16,17,19 .…”

“…As observed in other studies 4,7,16,17 , mortality was also associated with the presence of associated lesions. We observed a clear and sustained dose-response relationship in the univariate analysis: when there was no other lesion associated with the diaphragmatic one, mortality was zero, increasing to 11.1% (one lesion), 20.5% (two lesions) and 37.5% (three or more lesions).…”

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Neck Trauma Deaths In Brazil: Review Of 541 Cases.

“…Young black Brazilians have 2.5 times higher odds of being murdered than white youths 11 . While the absolute number of homicides among the Brazilian young white population is decreasing, that of young blacks is increasing 18 . In the present study, the number of blacks who died from gunshot wounds was higher than that of cases of death by sharp force trauma, which suggests a relationship among a socially vulnerable population, criminality, and the use of firearms.…”

“…individuals and the mean age of gunshot wound victims were lower than those of sharp force trauma victims. These findings might be attributed to the involvement of young and single people with crime (mainly drug trafficking and organized crime) and consequently with firearms, especially in the Brazilian urban peripheral areas [16][17][18] . The most striking characteristic of the epidemiological pattern of homicide in Brazil (the main circumstance of death in the present study) is its occurrence among an increasingly younger population [19][20] .…”