Mulheres e meninas em situação de violência no Estado do Rio de Janeiro: notificação em saúde e recorrência, RJ

Abstract

This is an exploratory study on violence reported against girls and women in the State of Rio de Janeiro, from 2009 to 2014. Recent policies and legislation, addressing the situation of violence that girls and women experience, have led some studies and placement data alarming on the subject. The gradual improvement in standardization and formulation of attendance data, through the System for Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), has the potential to offer advances in the understanding of violence against girls and women, recurrence and consequent improvements to the planning and monitoring of coping actions. Thus, using the SINAN database, selected reports of violence against girls and women, and had the following objectives: I) produce descriptive profile analysis of girls and women seen, characteristics of their attackers, the reported violence and cross-referrals ; and II) to analyze the risk factors associated with the likelihood of a victim suffering recurrence of any violence. Our results revealed that are more likely to reoffend any form of violence, if the victim is already intimate partner of the author of violence, whether she is old, she is separated, if the site of aggression is residential and, divergently to the literature, if the aggressor did not use alcohol. This was an exploratory analysis, because there was huge percentage of lost information, between the variables selected from the literature. In our concluding remarks, we highlight the need for investment in professional and technical training to improve the quality of data. In addition, we recommend the creation of intersectoral and multidisciplinary observatory of monitoring violence against women, to discuss, propose responses and facilitates execution paths to improve the quality of data, monitoring, analysis and evaluation of public policies and coping services to violence against girls and women.