Tendência das pesquisas sobre violência doméstica contra as mulheres entre os anos de 2000 - 2009 no Brasil

Abstract

The violence against women is a complex world phenomenon that has won a bigger social visibility in the last years, being considered as a public health problem. This paper is about a bibliographic research whose data were collected by a consultation at the Health Visual Library (“Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde-BVS/Birene”), in the database of Latin America Literature of Caribbean, in Health Science (LILACS) and Scientific Electronic Library On Line (SCIELO). The objective of the research was to know what the health specialized literature from the last ten years available on line brings in respect of domestic violence against women between the years 2000 and 2009. It makes use of the term domestic violence against women and public health as descriptors for the data entry that was submitted into a thematic analyze from Minayo. It was found that these productions have as focus the domestic violence and of gender, the characteristic of the victims that suffered this violence and the perception of them and of the health professionals about the subject. Studies about the profile of these women show up that the age group varies from 20 to 39 years old and that economic dependence and the husband income implies on the necessity of maintaining together the aggressor, besides the violence situation. Because it’s a recent subject, the health services not always are equipped and prepared for the identification of the violence situation against women, the attendance and the solution of the problem. The actions of the health professionals were characterized by the non-welcome of these demands and for the inadequate answers for them.