RESEARCH ARTICLE
Conceptions About Health and Care Practices of Black Men from a Quilombola Community
Anderson Reis de Sousa1, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2021Volume: 15
Issue: Suppl-1, M6
First Page: 335
Last Page: 342
Publisher ID: TONURSJ-15-335
DOI: 10.2174/1874434602115010335
Article History:
Received Date: 14/08/2020Revision Received Date: 11/11/2020
Acceptance Date: 13/11/2020
Electronic publication date: 15/12/2021
Collection year: 2021
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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.