Violência no trânsito envolvendo jovens em municípios da região Oeste do Paraná: comprometimentos da força de trabalho para projetos de desenvolvimento

Abstract

This is a field research and it is characterized as a social analytical research, whose technical procedures are supported by qualitative research. It aims at identifying and analyzing how deaths and injuries caused by traffic accidents involve the renewal of the youth workforce in the cities of Cascavel, Cafelândia, Toledo, Marechal Cândido Rondon, and Palotina, mainly due to the consequences of traffic violence involving and victimizing young people between the ages of 18 and 29, from January, 2012 to December, 2014. The five cities together have a fleet of more than 350,000 vehicles, with an average increase of 20.97% of the fleet in the last five years. The research used intentional stratified sampling that came from two sources: SYSBM – RGO from the 4th Groupement of Firefighters of the city of Cascavel, which records all occurrences of accidents with victims of the five cities surveyed; and the Data Bank of the 10th and 20th Regional Health, which have a database of all injured people of the five cities assisted by the Unified Health System. The data were collected after the approval of the research by the Research Ethics Committee of the State University of Western Paraná, in the second semester of 2016. For data analysis, the interpretative analysis was used, whose main categories of interpretation came from the built theoretical framework, which is articulated by the multidisciplinary concepts of environmental health. The results showed the similarity of the numbers of accidents, deaths and injuries recorded in medium- and small-size cities with those seen in larger urban centers. There was a predominance of motorcycle accidents, with prevalence of male victims. The number of injured people is much higher than the number of deaths and, in the medium and long term, it can influence the development projects of cities and, consequently, of the region. It was also observed that, in the region, punitive measures produce results of reduction in the numbers of occurrences. It was found that only a multidisciplinary intervention through education can modify the reality of numbers, by incorporating traffic as one of the dimensions of contemporary social life.