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- Title
PERFIL EPIDEMIOLÓGICO DAS VÍTIMAS DE MORTE VIOLENTA NA GRANDE CUIABÁ.
- Authors
Sankiti Koike, André; Guimarães Colucci, Andréa; Cavalcante Gomes, Renato; da Silva Andreoni, Maristela; Silva, Ageo Mário Cândido; Batista Nogueira, Paulo Luiz
- Abstract
The increasing violence in urban centers, affecting the most economically active population shows the greatest challenge in the current situation of public security in our country. Thus, a cross-sectional descriptive epidemiological analysis of violent death profile Cuiaba and region was performed. We used 486 records of violent death victim necropsy of the Legal Medical Institute of Cuiabá ( IML) in the period from 2014 to 2015. Adults between 20 and 49 years old, brown skin and male sex were the main victims of violent death. deaths stood out on public roads 64.6 %, the mechanical energy accounted for 92.6 % of violent deaths . As the cause of death was noted that traumatic brain injury (TBI) and hypovolemic shock accounted for 74.4 % of the victims. It is concluded that brown adult males of working age are the main victims of violent death in Cuiabá, showing a serious social problem.
- Publication
Connection Line, 2016, Issue 15, p118
- ISSN
1980-7341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18312/1980-7341.n15.2016.354