Analysis of the correlation of socioeconomic, sanitary, and demographic factors with homicide deaths - Bahia, Brazil, 2013-2015.

Tiago Oliveira De Souza,Edinilsa Ramos De Souza,Liana Wernersbach Pinto

doi:10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0346

Abstract

To analyze the correlation of socioeconomic, sanitary, and demographic factors with homicides in Bahia, from 2013 to 2015. Ecological study, using data from the Information System on Mortality and from the Superintendence of Economic and Social Studies. The depending variable is the corrected homicide rate. Explanatory variables were categorized in four axes. Simple and multiple negative binomial regression models were used. Positive associations were found between homicides and the Index of Economy and Finances (IEF), the Human Development Index, the Gini Index, population density, and legal intervention death rates (LIDR). The variables Index of Education Levels (IEL), rates of death with undetermined intentions (RDUI), and the proportion of ill-defined causes (IDC) presented a negative association with the homicide rates. The specific features of the context of each community, in addition to broader socioeconomic municipal factors, directly interfere in life conditions and increase the risk of dying by homicide.

Highlights

Homicide has been used as a universal indicator of social violence both in sociological approaches and in the field of health
The process of modeling homicides and their co-variables started based on an analysis of individual contributions from each of the 12 explanatory variables of the study, as shown by Table 2, with the 12 univariate models and the effects of the estimates of variable coefficients, the reasons for the homicide rates (RHR), p-values, and confidence interval
The findings of this study showed that economic indexes crease in violence can already be observed[20] and during which (IEF) are directly associated to homicide rates in the state

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Homicide has been used as a universal indicator of social violence both in sociological approaches and in the field of health. On one, side, death by homicide is an interpersonal event (individual — between people — relational), homicide mortality rates are expressions of absolute risk, and of the life conditions from a certain place and time. In order to investigate the association between homicides and global explanatory factors, considering aspects such as the quality of the information with regards to the basic cause of death, this study focuses on the socioecologic (macro-social) relations of homicides. It revolves around environmental contexts, as opposed to individual risk-group factors. It considers global variables and measures, exclusively attributed to the places in which this type of death happens[9]

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