Health information systems and tackling violence against women: a necessary dialogue.

Objective: To identify information obtained from Health Information Systems (HIS) allowing to detect violence against women, critically discussing strategies to promote the integration of these data and the improvement of analyses on violence.

Method: Reflective theoretical essay, using a narrative review, based on the analysis of national documents on five HIS and their potential for detecting violence against women. The article discusses strategies developed within health management and academia to promote the integration and availability of data and information on violence against women.

Survival and risk of death among women with reports of intimate partner violence during pregnancy: a national cohort study in Brazil.

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the factors associated with the risk of death and survival probability among women who experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study used national data from Brazil. Survival probability was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method, while the Cox proportional hazards model was applied to investigate risk factors associated with death.

[Feminicide in Minas Gerais, Brazil: from characterization of events to spatiotemporal analysis].

This study characterizes feminicides taking place in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and compare the trends in feminicide and female homicide rates across the 89 health microregions of the state. A cross-sectional ecological study was conducted using data on feminicides from 2016 to 2020, consolidated by the Minas Gerais Prosecutor's Office. Feminicide and female homicide rates per 100,000 females were estimated according to the health microregions.

Factors associated with the notification of violence among Brazilian adolescents: an analysis of SINAN.

This study aims to analyze the trend of the notified violence committed against adolescents from 2015 to 2022 and the association between the victim's characteristics, abuse, and the perpetrators of violence against adolescents in 2022. It used data from the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN). Around 400,000 cases of violence against adolescents were reported.

Risk of mortality by aggression: A retrospective cohort study in women with notification of interpersonal violence in Brazil.

Objectives: The present study investigated the incidence of mortality by aggression in women who experienced interpersonal violence. The study also aimed identify whether intimate partner violence (IPV) was associated with the risk of death by aggression.

Study Design: This was a population-based retrospective cohort study linking data from the National Disease Notification System and the Mortality Information System.

Pregnancy in girls under 14 years old: Spatial analysis in Brazil, 2011-2021.

The objective was to analyze the spatial distribution of pregnancy in children under 14 years and six months by Brazilian region and municipality and sociodemographic and health characteristics of pregnant women and live births. Ecological study analyzing the Live Birth Information System (SINASC) from 2011 to 2021 in three age groups (< 14 years and six months, 15-19 years, and 20 years and above) by demographic and birth variables. We applied the Global and Local Moran.

[Mortality of women with reported violence during pregnancy in Brazil: a case-control study].

This study aimed to characterize the main causes of death of women with notification of interpersonal violence during pregnancy and to identify the factors associated with these deaths. This is a case-control study conducted based on relating data on violence to deaths that occurred in Brazil from 2011 to 2017. Data from the Braziliam Information System for Notificable Diseases and the Brazilian Mortality Information System were analyzed using multiple logistic regression.

Descriptive study of reported cases of sexual violence and specialized care services in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2019.

Objective: to describe the sociodemographic profile of reported cases of sexual violence (SV) and the distribution of care services for this health condition in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2019.

Methods: this was a descriptive study of the cases of sexual violence reported on the Notifiable Health Conditions Information System and care services registered in the National Health Establishment Registry.

Results: a total of 4,418 notifications of SV were identified during the study period, representing more than 12 notifications per day; the majority of notifications were among females (87.

Violence Against LGB+ people in Brazil: analysis of the 2019 National Survey of Health.

Objective: To analyze the association between self-reported sexual orientation and violence in the Brazilian population.

Methods: This cross-sectional epidemiological study used the 2019 National Survey of Health database. Total violence and its subtypes (psychological, physical, and sexual) were analyzed in the previous 12 months.

Mortality and years of life lost to death or disability by interpersonal violence against women in Brazil: Global Burden of Disease Study, 1990 and 2019.

Introduction: Aggression against women is an important cause of morbidity and death. This study compares the variation of deaths and years of life lost to death or disability (DALY) caused by interpersonal violence against women in Brazil and its states.

Methods: This descriptive study analyzed estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) referring to interpersonal violence against women, aged 15 to 49 years, examining the mortality and DALY rates for Brazil and its states, in 1990 and 2019.

Prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence against adult women in Brazil: National Survey of Health, 2019.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence against adult women in Brazil.

Methods: Quantitative cross-sectional epidemiological study using the database of the National Survey of Health 2019. The prevalence in the last 12 months and crude and adjusted prevalence ratios of intimate partner violence were calculated, stratified by sociodemographic characteristics.

Mortality among Brazilian adolescents and young adults between 1990 to 2019: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study.

Mortality indicators for Brazilians aged between 10 and 24 years old were analyzed. Data were obtained from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2019 Study, and absolute numbers, proportion of deaths and specific mortality rates from 1990 to 2019 were analyzed, according to age group (10 to 14, 15 to 19 and 20 to 24 years), sex and causes of death for Brazil, regions and Brazilian states. There was a reduction of 11.

Factors associated with death in women with intimate partner violence notification in Brazil.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a social and public health concern. This article aims to identify factors associated with death in women with IPV notification. This is a case-control study based on the record-linkage of the Mortality Information System (SIM), from 2011 to September/2017, and the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), 2011 to 2016.

Association between firearms and mortality in Brazil, 1990 to 2017: a global burden of disease Brazil study.

Background: Brazil leads the world in number of firearm deaths and ranks sixth by country in rate of firearm deaths per 100,000 people. This study aims to analyze trends in and burden of mortality by firearms, according to age and sex, for Brazil, and the association between these deaths and indicators of possession and carrying of weapons using data from the global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors study (GBD) 2017.

Methods: We used GBD 2017 estimates of mortality due to physical violence and self-harm from firearms for Brazil to analyze the association between deaths by firearms and explanatory variables.

Profile of notification of violence against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite and Transsexual people recorded in the National Information System on Notifiable Diseases, Brazil, 2015-2017.

Objective: This study aimed to describe the profile of notifications of violence against LGBT people in Brazil, from 2015 to 2017.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study with secondary data on records of violence against LGBT people. The study population included individuals aged 10 and older with homosexual or bisexual orientation as well as transvestites or transgender identities.

Aggressions in urgency and emergency care in Brazilian capitals: perspectives of 2011, 2014 and 2017 VIVA Survey.

Objectives: To describe the profile of care provided by aggressions in emergency units from the VIVA Survey 2011, 2014 and 2017 data, and to compare the evolution of six indicators over four (2011 to 2014) and seven years (2011 to 2017).

Methods: Cross-sectional study, using data from the last three editions of the VIVA Survey carried out in the Federal District and in 19 Brazilian capitals. The types of occurrence were selected: aggression/mistreatment and intervention by a public agent.

Violence against adolescents: analysis of health sector notifications, Brazil, 2011-2017.

Introduction: Violence experienced in adolescence results in serious damage and suffering to society. This study aims to characterize the profile of violence victims and likely perpetrators of violence against adolescents, as well as to describe the percentage of notifying municipalities according to the federation unit.

Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted with data on notification of violence against adolescents from the Information System for Notifiable Diseases, from 2011 to 2017.

Wounded adolescences: a portrait of firearm violence reported in Brazil.

Objective: To describe the notifications of interpersonal and self-inflicted firearm violence in adolescents and to identify the factors associated with the notification of this event.

Methodology: Cross-sectional study analyzing data from Sinan from 2011 to 2017, in adolescents aged 10-19 years, injured by firearms. The χ2 test was used to verify the gender ratio difference.

Improvement of the unspecified external causes classification based on the investigation of death in Brazil in 2017.

Background: Unspecified causes of death are among the traditional indicators of quality of information.

Objective: To verify the performance of the 60 cities in the Data for Health Initiative project and to analyze the reclassification of unspecified external causes of death (UEC).

Methods: Using the 2017 records from the Mortality Information System, the proportion and percent change in UEC were compared after investigation between project cities and other cities, and the percent of reclassification to specific external causes was calculated.

Prevalence of bullying and associated factors among Brazilian schoolchildren in 2015.

This study analyzed the prevalence of bullying and associated factors among Brazilian schoolchildren using data produced by the 2015 National School Health Survey (PeNSE, acronym in Portuguese) consisting of a national sample of 102,301 eighth grade students. The prevalence of bullying was calculated and bivariate analysis was performed using a 95% confidence level to determine the association between victimization and socio-demographic variables and other variables relating to family background, mental health, and risk behaviors. Multivariate analysis was then conducted using the biologically plausible variables of interest.