Profile Analysis of Child Violence in the Municipality of Goiânia-Goiás

Abstract

Child violence is considered a serious public health problem, and with this several efforts are made to solve this situation. This study aimed to characterize the sociodemographic aspects related to child violence in the city of Goiânia-GO and to verify the spatial distribution and temporal tendency in relation to the differences in the number of notifications of child violence. This is a descriptive-analytical study, based on the notifications of violence available in the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN NET), against children aged 0 to 11 years, 11 months and 29 days, which occurred in the municipality of Goiânia/Goiás, from 2010 to 2021. The results pointed to the higher prevalence of reports of violence by negligence. In relations with the violence studied, children aged 1 to 3 years, the most affected, female, the main place of occurrence is the victim's residence and the peripheral regions of the municipality of Goiânia-GO were more sensitive to child violence. In view of the findings, children are exposed to violence in various ways, and the period of growth and development is threatened by the event of violence.