Aspectos epidemiológicos e clínicos da violência contra a mulher no município de Uberlândia, MG

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Ano de defesa: 2007
Autor(a) principal: Garcia, Marilúcia Vieira
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Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
BR
Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Saúde
Ciências da Saúde
UFU
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Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/12869
Resumo: One of the greatest problems that humanity faces today is the violence phenomenom, is in most people s lives and, together with the accidents, represents one of the main injuries to health resulting from outside causes. This study shows epidemiological and clinical aspects of violence, using the medical handbooks data from the Hospital de Clínicas de Uberlândia (HCU); from the expertise reports of bodily harm and of autopsies of Posto Médico Legal (PML) and service reports of the Organização-não Governamental SOS Mulher Ação Família (ONG SOS Mulher). It prevailed physical agressions in the HCU medical supports (98.2%) and PML (96%), and psycological violence (36.2%) in the ONG SOS Mulher. The services were more frequent during the weekend, as much as those performed in HCU (36%) as the services in PML (38%), and in the ONG SOS Mulher, mainly on Mondays (24.3%). In the HCU and the PML, the medical supports were common in the period between 6pm until 12am (36.5% and 42.3%, respectively). The victims were 18 to 39 years of age (77.5% and 76.2%, respectively HCU and PML); those with services in HCU (49.4%) and PML (34,9%) declared themselves mainly singles, and in the ONG SOS Mulher, joined together (50.3%), more than half (50,9%) hasn´t finished elementary school; their professions/occupations were mainly housewives (40.2%) of those with services in the PML, and domestics (30.5%) in the ONG SOS Mulher and these lived in their own property (55.2%). Among the aggressors, 87.8% were between 20 and 49 years of age, 57.7% haven t concluded elementary and junior high; most had little professional qualification, were joined together/ex-joined together (50.2%) of the victims attended in the ONG SOS Mulher and husbands/ex-husbands those with services in HCU (51.5%) and of those with services in the PML (30.4%). According to the reports from the women taken care in the ONG SOS Mulher, 86.3% of the aggressors were stylists, 20.7% drug addicts and 10.3% practised games of chance. According to victims, the main reason to continue living with the aggressor after the suffered violence was the hope that the conjugal relationship would improve (33.8%). The victims taken care of in the HCU and the PML, presented mainly wounds (62.3% and 74.8%, respectively), that they had reached especially, head/neck (39.1%) according to given data of the HCU, and upper limbs (35.1%) as the findings of the PML. The deaths mainly had resulted from the use of cold steel weapons (36.4% and 44.0%, respectively HCU and PML) and firearms (36.4% and 20.0%, respectively HCU and PML). One concludes that the violence against women is frequent and a health problem; the medical supports occur mainly weekends and the nocturnal period. The victims are young, with little scholarity and little professional qualification and habits in their own property. The profile of the aggressors resemble to the one of the victims, generally, being their own companions, the addictions and the jealousy are the main reasons for the aggressions that occur mainly inside their homes, and the hope that the conjugal relationship improves, makes the victims remain in the violent relationship. The injuries deriving from the aggressions are wounds, especially in the head/neck and the upper limbs. The deaths are not rare. They occur mainly by the use of cold steel arms and firearms.