Spatial Distribution of Violence Against Older Adults Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Aline Balandis Costa,
Francielle Renata Danielli Martins Marques,
Natan Nascimento de Oliveira
et al.
Abstract:Objective: to analyze the spatial distribution of violence against older adults in the Brazilian South region before and in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: an ecological study that analyzed reports of violence against older adults between 2019 and 2020, in Southern Brazil. Local empirical Bayesian rates, Moran’s Local Autocorrelation Index and Getis Ord Gi analysis were calculated. Results: there was a reduction in the smoothed rate of violence against older adults. The high-high and hot-spo… Show more
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