Racismo estrutural e saúde da população negra: contribuições para a crítica da ideologia racista na saúde brasileira

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze how the racist ideology established itself in Brazilian health from scientific racism, through eugenicist-hygienist conceptions to the incipient incorporation of racism as a structural element of the health-disease process in the National Policy of Integral Health of the Black Population (2009). To this end, through an integrative bibliographic review and documental research, we started from the debate used by sanitarianism on the improvement of the human race, latent in the years 1920-1930, and advanced to the National Policy for the Comprehensive Health of the Black Population. (2009) who, despite recognizing racism as a determining element of the health-disease process of black people in the country, - which influences the way these subjects fall ill and die, and impact on the access to prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of this population in Brazil ,- has not yet reached the status of Law, which allows us to infer that it is due to structural racism. In addition, this same Policy recognizes racism as one of the social determinants of health conditions, and not as an element of the social determinants of health, as a central issue in the history of the Brazilian black population, which for us is a limit of the same.