Ferimentos não fatais por arma de fogo entre policiais militares do Rio de Janeiro: a saúde como campo de emergência contra a naturalização da violência

Ciencia e Saude Coletiva

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Maia, Adriane Batista Pires¹  Assis, Simone Gonçalves¹  Ribeiro, Fernanda Mendes Lages¹  Wernersbach, Liana¹ 

[1] Fundação Oswaldo Cruz

关键词: Morbity;    Police;    Public safety;    Gunshot wound;    Occupational health;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1413-81232021265.19412019

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Associacao Brasileira de Pos - Graduacao em Saude Coletiva

【 摘 要 】

This article discusses health problems due to firearm injuries suffered on duty military police officers in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro (RJ). Medical records analysis was con ducted referring to military police officers who were treated at the Military Police’s Central Hos pital (MPCH) due to gunshot wounds from June 2015 to December 2017 according to professional profile, the characteristics of the event and the le sion, the spatial distribution of the incidents in volving gunshot wounds, and the healthcare units involved in their care. Firearms injured four hun dred seventy-five military police officers: 98.3% were male, 77.3% were in service, 97.9% were soldier personnel. As to the anatomical location of the wounds, the most affected regions were: lower (41.1%) and superior (33.1%) limbs, the head neck-face region (23.5%), and thorax-abdomen (3%). The areas in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro with the highest occurrence of firearm morbidity are program areas 3 and 1 and the Baixada Fluminense. There is a correlation between police morbidity rates due to firearm injuries in the municipalities of the metropolitan region and demographic density (p = 0.024).

【 授权许可】

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