Vítimas de violência atendidas nos serviços de urgência e emergência em Mato Grosso, 2014

Abstract

Violence is a relevant public health problem in Brazil, The goal of this project is to characterize victims of violence that receive medical care in the public emergency and urgency medical services of the counties of Mato Grosso in September 2014. For that, a cross-sectional study was realized in emergency and urgency services in 14 selected counties from the state of Mato Grosso, where we applied the VIVA Survey in 2014. The number of 409 medical emergency visits that happened during 30 consecutive days were characterized. Brown (50,6%) man (54%3) aged between 20 and 39 were the majority of victims. The violence occurs inside the residences in most cases (48,4%) by male offenders (84,9%) known by the victims (60,2%). Physical agression prevails (96,6%) through body strength (47,9%), resulting in cuttings and laceration (54,7%) in the head/face/neck areas (37,9%), with the development to high priority emergency in 58,9% of cases and death in 1% of the cases. The results are of great importance to public health, since such information may help create violence prevention and health promotion programs.