TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Non-fatal gunshot wounds among military police in Rio de Janeiro: health as a field of emergency against the naturalization of violence
JO  - Ciencia e Saude Coletiva
A1  - Maia, Adriane Batista Pires
A1  - Assis, Simone Gonçalves
A1  - Ribeiro, Fernanda Mendes Lages
A1  - Wernersbach, Liana
SP  - 1911
EP  - 1922
VL  - 26
IS  - 5
N2  - This article discusses health problems due to firearm injuries suffered on duty military police officers in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro (RJ). Medical records analysis was con ducted referring to military police officers who were treated at the Military Police's Central Hos pital (MPCH) due to gunshot wounds from June 2015 to December 2017 according to professional profile, the characteristics of the event and the le sion, the spatial distribution of the incidents in volving gunshot wounds, and the healthcare units involved in their care. Firearms injured four hun dred seventy-five military police officers: 98.3% were male, 77.3% were in service, 97.9% were soldier personnel. As to the anatomical location of the wounds, the most affected regions were: lower (41.1%) and superior (33.1%) limbs, the head neck-face region (23.5%), and thorax-abdomen (3%). The areas in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro with the highest occurrence of firearm morbidity are program areas 3 and 1 and the Baixada Fluminense. There is a correlation between police morbidity rates due to firearm injuries in the municipalities of the metropolitan region and demographic density (p = 0.024).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1413-8123
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232021265.19412019
ID  - ref1
ER  -