Saúde, minorias e desigualdade: algumas teias de inter-relações, com ênfase nos povos indígenas no Brasil

Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

Carlos Everaldo Alvares Coimbra Jr.¹  Ricardo Ventura Santos¹ 

[1] ,Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Rio de Janeiro RJ ,Brasil

关键词: Ethnicity;    Race;    Inequality;    Health;    Indians;    Brazil;    Etnia;    Raça;    Desigualdade;    Saúde;    Índios;    Brasil;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1413-81232000000100011

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In Brazil, few studies have analyzed the impacts of the ethnic-racial dimension upon the expression of health issues. In their daily lives, minorities experience situations of exclusion, marginality and discrimination that make them particularly vulnerable to health problems. In this paper we primarily focus on indigenous peoples. Rates of morbidity and mortality above national levels, hunger, undernutrition, occupational hazards and social violence are some of the multiple health-disease outcomes that derive from the persistence of inequalities. It is important that conditions are created in order to revert the current situation of demographic and epidemiological "invisibility" faced by indigenous peoples in Brazil, which in part stem from the absence of information about them in national databases. This will allow for a better understanding of the genesis, determinants and ways of reproduction of health inequalities in Brazil, thus potentially informing political actions and fostering interventions.

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