Gender inequalities in external cause mortality in Brazil, 2010

To estimate mortality rate by external causes in Brazil. Mortality national 2010's data corrected by underreport and adjusted by direct method were evaluated by sex according to age, region of residence, race/skin color, education and conjugal situation. The standardized mortality coefficient o...

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Published inCiência & saude coletiva Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 779 - 788
Main Authors de Moura, Erly Catarina, Gomes, Romeu, Falcão, Marcia Thereza Couto, Schwarz, Eduardo, das Neves, Alice Cristina Medeiros, Santos, Wallace
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Portuguese
Published Brazil Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva 01.03.2015
ABRASCO - Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva
Subjects
Adult
Brazil
Cause of Death - trends
Death & dying
Demographics
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality
Probability
PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Sex Distribution
Socioeconomic Factors
Young Adult
Brazil
Brasil
Men's health
Saúde do homem
Mortality
Causas externas
External causes
Brazil
Mortalidade
Gênero
Gender
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Summary:To estimate mortality rate by external causes in Brazil. Mortality national 2010's data corrected by underreport and adjusted by direct method were evaluated by sex according to age, region of residence, race/skin color, education and conjugal situation. The standardized mortality coefficient of external causes is higher among men (178 per thousand inhabitants) than among women (24 per thousand inhabitants), being higher among young men (20 to 29 years old) in all regions and decreasing with aging. The mortality rate reaches almost nine times higher among men comparably to women, being higher in North and Northeast regions. The death incidence by external causes is higher among men (36.4%) than among women (10.9%), meaning 170% more risk for men. The risk is also higher among the youngest: 6.00 for men and 7.36 for women. The main kind of death by external causes among men is aggressions, followed by transport accidents, the opposite of women. Besides sex, age is the more important predictive factor of precocious death by external causes, pointing the need of many and various sectors in order to construct new identities of non violence.
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ISSN:1413-8123
1678-4561
1678-4561
1413-8123
DOI:10.1590/1413-81232015203.11172014