Associated factors and prevalence of types of violence against women in cases of mandatory reports in the state of pará from 2014 to 2016
International Journal of Development Research
Associated factors and prevalence of types of violence against women in cases of mandatory reports in the state of pará from 2014 to 2016
Received 27th July, 2018; Received in revised form 20th August, 2018; Accepted 03rd September, 2018; Published online 30th October, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Khalifa and Al- Shabi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Violence is a daily phenomenon characterized as a social issue of multiple causes and factors that affects all social classes, especially the most defenseless individuals. Overthirty years ago, violence against women began to receive more attention, becoming a relevant and alarming issue of both Security and Public Health. Thus, this paper aims to verify the distribution of cases of violence against women in mandatory reports in the State of Pará, between 2014 and 2016, and to analyze the prevalence of factors associated with these types of violence. The data used in this study refer to the mandatory reports of violence against women from 2014 to 2016, provided by the State Department of Public Health of the State of Pará (SESPA), on January 31, 2017, to the Group of Studies and Statistical and Computational Research (GEPEC) and the Laboratory of Information System and Georeferencing (LASIG). The types of violence against women reported demonstrate the need for more specialized departments to deal with such violence, as well as indicate new waystosolve this problem of public safety.
