Abstract
Currently, the concept of vulnerability occupies a central space in debates on the health of indigenous peoples on a global scale, being widely referred to in discussions about the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. This concept is present in the National Healthcare Policy for Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, which is aligned with the perspective of social determinants of health. In this interpretive scheme, which is central to public policies in many countries of the world, including Brazil, any disease that affects human populations involves, to some extent, biological aspects; however, the main determinants of disease and death of populations are considered to be primarily linked to ethnic, political and socioeconomic inequalities.
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Ricardo Ventura Santos 1,2 Luiz Antônio Bastos Camacho 1 Sergio Tavares de Almeida Rego 1 Luiz Eloy Terena 3 Ana Lucia Pontes 1 Jane Felipe Beltrão 4 Carlos E
This concept is present in the National Healthcare Policy for Indigenous Peoples in Brazil 2, which is aligned with the perspective of social determinants of health
We want to comment here on a recent article published in PLoS One by Leal et al 3, which seems to us to be illustrative of an emphasis that, mistakenly, sidelines the perspective of social determinants in the field of the health of indigenous peoples
Summary
Ricardo Ventura Santos 1,2 Luiz Antônio Bastos Camacho 1 Sergio Tavares de Almeida Rego 1 Luiz Eloy Terena 3 Ana Lucia Pontes 1 Jane Felipe Beltrão 4 Carlos E. Without controlling for socioeconomic variables, whose effects on tuberculosis disease are well known, the main conclusion of the study is as follows: “...AMR [Amerindian] ancestry in the 20% to 60% range was a risk factor for susceptibility to TB...” 3
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