An ecological study on suicide and homicide in Brazil

Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

Daniel Hideki Bando¹  David Lester¹ 

关键词: Suicide;    Homicide;    Sociodemographic variables;    Ecological study;    States of Brazil;    Suicídio;    Homicídio;    Variáveis socioeconômicas;    Estudo ecológico;    Estados do Brasil;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1413-81232014194.00472013

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The objective was to evaluate correlations between suicide, homicide and socio-demographic variables by an ecological study. Mortality and socio-demographic data were collected from official records of the Ministry of Health and IBGE (2010), aggregated by state (27). The data were analyzed using correlation techniques, factor analysis, principal component analysis with a varimax rotation and multiple linear regression. Suicide age-adjusted rates for the total population, men and women were 5.0, 8.0, and 2.2 per 100,000 inhabitants respectively. The suicide rates ranged from 2.7 in Pará to 9.1 in Rio Grande do Sul. Homicide for the total population, men and women were 27.2, 50.8, and 4.5 per 100,000, respectively. The homicide rates ranged from 13.0 in Santa Catarina to 68.9 in Alagoas. Suicide and homicide were negatively associated, the significance persisted among men. Unemployment was negatively correlated with suicide and positively with homicide. Different socio-demographic variables were found to correlate with suicide and homicide in the regressions. Suicide showed a pattern suggesting that, in Brazil, it is related to high socioeconomic status. Homicide seemed to follow the pattern found in other countries, associated with lower social and economic status.

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