Geographical information system on homicides in Campinas, Southeast Brazil

• Grant number: 18/24429-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2019
• End date: March 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Epidemiology
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Carlos Cordeiro
• Grantee: Gabriel Neris Luiz Caldas
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Between 1979 and 2016, more than four million Brazilians died due to external causes. Of these deaths, two million occurred in the State of São Paulo. Of this total, more than 45% resulted from homicides. Among the numerous difficulties to contain homicides in Brazil one can also cite the small knowledge about the spatial distribution of these crimes at intramunicipal level. This project aims to contribute to overcoming this limitation by developing, testing and making available to any interested a geographic information system that locates the occurrence of homicides in a large city of the State of São Paulo, visually identifying characteristics of these deaths and areas of higher incidence. It is intended that such a system will contribute not only to local prevention, but also to the development of similar systems in other localities.