Health of the black population and the educational actions of school from the Unified Health System during COVID-19 pandemic

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Andréa da Anunciação
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Xavier, Shirlei da Silva, Sousa, Iolanda Nogueira de, Gomes, Aline Lira Villafane, Jesus, Ubiraci Matilde de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3269
• topic: Saúde da população negra; Covid-19; Educação permanente; Educação Permanente em Saúde; Salud de la población negra; Covid-19; Educación permanente; Health of ethnic minorities; Covid-19; Education continuing

The study aims to emphasize the need to build educational proposals that discuss the place of blacks in Brazilian society and their intrinsic relationship with social determinations of health, in the context of the pandemic of Covid-19. This is an experience report of the first class of the Course on Updating Health Care for the Black Population, developed by Escola de Saúde Pública da Bahia Professor Jorge Novis (ESPBA), in partnership with the Department of Care Management (DGC). This course arises from the need to invest in the implementation of the policy aimed at this social segment. In the process of structuring the course, meetings were held with relevant social actors, potential teachers, chosen by the approach to the theme and experience with social movements and causes. Within the scope of the Unified Health System, the Schools of Government are responsible for the training processes of health workers, from the perspective of Permanent Education. The insertion of the theme of health of the black population in the curricula worked became an objective image to be achieved by the institution, not only from the courses developed, but also with the realization of a pilot study to confront Covid-19 in quilombola communities of the state. Recognizing racism as one of the social determinants of the process of illness and death, the article argues that managers and health professionals have access to educational actions that enable them to reflect on the socio-historical processes of building our society, expand knowledge about the health of the black population and the importance of filling the question race/color in all protocols of the Unified Health System Network.