Abstract
Violence against women has been described as perhaps the most shameful human rights violation. It is essential to solve this problem for the realization of the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on gender equality and respect for life, and other fundamental rights of women. The objective of this work is to estimate and analyze the micro-regional differences in mortality rates for aggression on women aged 15 to 29 years, mostly with gender connotation, and produce a map with mortality rates for Brazilian micro regions. We have estimated the average annual rates of specific mortality by aggression/100.000 women 15 to 29 years in 558 Brazilian Micro Regions for a five years period of exposure, from 2002 to 2006, divided into four categories for analysis: less than 3 deaths/100 000, 3 to 6/100.000, 6 to 9/100.000 and more than 9/100.000. From 2002 to 2006 there were 8665 deaths in women 15 to 29 years as a result of aggression. Of the 558 micro regions, 69 had a rate greater than 9.0/100,000, accounting for 12.4% of the micro regions, showing large regional differences.
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