SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY BY HOMICIDES OF THE MALE GENDER IN THE AGE RANGE FROM 10 TO 29 YEARS IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF THE NORTHEAST REGION IN THE PERIOD OF 2012 TO 2017
Violence; Aggression; Men; Youth; Spatial Analysis
Homicides in Brazil represent the first cause of death from external causes since the 1980s. In this scenario, there is a higher risk of death from this group of causes in people living in precarious conditions of infrastructure and social facilities, young (15-29 years), male, black or brown, with low education and little professional qualification. This work aims to analyze the spatial pattern of homicide mortality among men in the five-year age groups of 10 to 29 years, located in the municipalities of the Northeast Region, from 2012 to 2014 and 2015 to 2017, as well as its correlation with socioeconomic and demographic variables. This is an ecological study of spatial analysis, whose population will consist of homicide deaths in young men (10 to 29 years old) that occurred in the municipalities of the Northeast region, from 2012 to 2014 and 2015 to 2017. Death records was extracted from the Mortality Information System of the SUS Informatics Department (SIM / DATASUS). Due to the large proportion of deaths classified as events whose intention is undetermined, generating estimates of underestimated homicide mortality, the present study corrected the deaths according to the methodology proposed by Borges and Cano (2012). Underreporting of deaths, crude mortality rates, specific for age group, were calculated. Then, the rectification of the coverage of deaths was carried out by correction factors resulting from the active search in the study developed by Szwarcwald et al. (2010). In addition to the rates being standardized by the Brazilian male population in 2010 and smoothed by the Empirical Bayseian Estimator. Then, the presence of spatial correlation of mortality rates was analyzed through Local and Global Moran Index. As a result, homicide mortality rates were recorded in young males with an average of 7.8 and a median of 5.8 per 10,000 inhabitants, in the period from 2012 to 2014 and in the following period, average of 10.9 and median of 8.6 per 10,000 inhabitants. The highest rates for this cause were found in the municipality of Simões Filho in the state of BA, with 52.91 per 10,000 inhabitants, in the first three years and in the municipality of Saubara also in Bahia, with 59.14 per 10,000 inhabitants. n addition to the High-Low clusters found in the Northeast Region that portray the internalization and spread of violence, since they characterize high rates in this part with the surroundings with low rates. Finally, this work reinforces the importance of reporting homicide records in order to provide incentives for the elaboration of public policies, in addition to highlighting the fight against violence through intersectoral actions.