2023-06-21 20:04:00
An unprecedented study carried out in Brazil showed that women make up 75% of the victims of violence physical and sexual in the country and that black and mixed-race women are the most affected. In addition, according to the research, depending on the region where they live, these women have more than twice the risk of suffering some type of violence than white women.
This is what a study reveals that analyzed more than a million data from the Mandatory Reporting Disease System of the Ministry of Healthbetween 2015 and 2022, with the records of women who received care in the public health system.
The work was developed by Vital Strategies, an international organization made up of experts and researchers who make public policy recommendations to governments. According to the data analyzed, in the northeast of the country, black women (which in the study includes black and mixed-race women) are more than twice as likely to suffer physical violence compared to white women, and in the north of Brazil they are twice as likely. chances of experiencing sexual violence.
Fátima Marinho, a technical advisor at Vital Strategies, says that the differences observed in the data may have socioeconomic, cultural, and regional relationships. “In the richest regions, violence against women is less visible, as is psychological violence, difficult to identify by the health professional and often by the victim herself. In poor areas, gender violence acquires a more visible, physical and sexual way”.
Translated by José Alberto Gutiérrez
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