Abstract
Public Health undergraduation aims to train health professionals with knowledge focused on the promotion, prevention and health systems management. However, an apparent silencing of debate in the courses is noted regarding the approach to issues of gender and sexuality. The objective is to understand the presence or not of contents that consider gender and sexuality aspects in this undergraduation, using the qualitative analysis, through Documentary Research and Content Analysis, from the research and analysis of the Curricular Pedagogical Projects (CPP) of Brazilian Public Health undergraduate courses. A total of 16 projects were analyzed from the 21 existing courses in Brazil. We present, mainly, that 12 courses have disciplines that discuss gender and sexuality issues during graduation, sometimes mandatorily or optionally. We conclude that the debate on gender and sexuality occurs in most of the Institutions with Public Health undergraduate courses. However, this field of discussion must also be improved in the National Curricular Guideline for Public Health courses, which should explicit these topics, enabling an undergraduation that overcomes prejudice, violence and binarism found in a heteronormative and sexist society.
Highlights
Public Health: a field in constantconstructionPublic Health can be defined as the field of knowledge related to health, diseases and problems, and to the extent of the social aspects involved in the health-sickness-care process
We analyzed the documents of undergraduate courses in Public Health in Brazil of the following institutions: State University of Amazonas (UEA), Federal University of Acre (UFAC), Federal University of Roraima (UFRR), Federal
Due to the unavailability of the documents, it was not possible to analyze the Curricular Pedagogical Projects (CPP) of the following institutions: Higher Education Association of Caruaru (ASCES), University of Pernambuco (UPE), ABC Faculty of Medicine (FMABC) and Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), University of Brasília (UnB) – Campus Darcy Ribeiro
Summary
Public Health can be defined as the field of knowledge related to health, diseases and problems, and to the extent of the social aspects involved in the health-sickness-care process. For this reason, it includes practical, technical, theoretical and political actions[1]. This proposal was intended to broaden the knowledge about the healthillness-care process and provide a comprehensive view of individuals, focusing on the medical curriculum[1,2]. This field of knowledge was consolidated and institutionalized in Brazil in the 1970s, mainly through two institutions.
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