Conceptions About Health and Care Practices of Black Men from a Quilombola Community

Anderson Reis De Sousa,Edson De Andrade Nhamuave,Oscar Javier Vergara Escobar,Evanilda Souza De Santana Carvalho,Heron Silva Caldas Santos,Climene De Camargo,Angélica Isabel Romero Daza,Thiago Da Silva Santana

doi:10.2174/1874434602115010335

Abstract

Introduction:Universal health coverage will be guaranteed to all individuals, safeguarding the rights of traditional communities, as in the quilombola population, respecting the dimensions of interculturality, gender and ethnicity.Objective:The aim of this study is to describe the conceptions of health and health care practices of Afro-Brazilian men from a quilombola community.Methods:This was a qualitative descriptive study conducted with Afro-Brazilian men from a quilombola community in Bahia, Brazil, where there is a significant concentration of black people and quilombola communities.Results:This group’s conceptions of health are based on the combination of the individual body with the body that is socially and culturally situated in the community. Health care practices are anchored in cultural knowledge and strengthened by the bonds with nature, friends and religious leaders.Conclusion:The black men from quilombola communities are in a state of vulnerability due to the lack of access to health services.

Highlights

Universal health coverage will be guaranteed to all individuals, safeguarding the rights of traditional communities, as in the quilombola population, respecting the dimensions of interculturality, gender and ethnicity
The Brazilian ethnic composition, which results from the confluence of people with different ethnic origins, permeated by immigration and colonization processes, reveals that the country has the largest black population outside of Africa, especially in the Northeastern region [4]
Organize and implement the transcultural provision of care to quilombola men, this study was guided by the following research question: how do black men from a quilombola community perceive health and health care practices? answering this question is the aim of the present article. This was a qualitative descriptive study, conducted with black men from a quilombola community in Bahia, Brazil, where there is a significant concentration of black people and quilombola communities

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Introduction

Universal health coverage will be guaranteed to all individuals, safeguarding the rights of traditional communities, as in the quilombola population, respecting the dimensions of interculturality, gender and ethnicity. Brazil is an intercultural country with an extensive, diverse and rich geographic territory occupied by an ethnically-racially mixed population, which has been experiencing expressive processes of transformation affecting the traditional communities, such as the indigenous, riverine, black and quilombola. Due to the political and social transformations in the country affecting the formation of the population’s identity, being black has been synonymous with resistance to stigmas and structural racism, which is a historical and cultural legacy of slavery. The quilombola communities symbolize the permanence and resistance of the Brazilian black population, which is determined to protect its ethnic and cultural values, rooted in African culture, surviving violence, xenophobia, racism, religious intolerance, persecution and domination [5]

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