Bahiana promotes the XNUMXst Colloquium on the Health of the Black Population

The Cabula Academic Unit Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública hosted, on October 9, the XNUMXst Colloquium on the Health of the Black Population. The event was the result of a joint action between the school, the Vida Plena Community Complex (CCVP) and the Hólon Society and aimed to discuss the current health situation of blacks in society.

The colloquium fostered several debates and roundtables about inequalities in access to health care for the black population, including in prison complexes. Topics such as racism and its relationship to health were also discussed, and reports of assistance to people with sickle cell anemia were presented.

Present were the coordinator of the Medicine course, Prof. Eliana de Paula, the professor of the Psychology course, Marilda Castelar, the professor of the Medicine course, André Luiz Peixinho, the coordinator of People Development, Prof. Luiza Ribeiro, in addition to professionals, health researchers, professors and students of the Bahiana.

The program included an opening conference given by the national consultant of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO-WHO), Prof. Dr. Maria Inês Barbosa, on the theme “Health of the Black Population – challenges to achieving equity in health ”.

A roundtable was also held with the doctoral student in Public Health, Me. Andrea Beatriz Santos and Prof. Dr. Climene Camargo, where the topic “Inequalities in Access to Health Services” was discussed, and another with the topic “Diverse views, knowledge and actions about the health of the population”, with the participation of the coordinator of the Center for Studies in Gender, Race and Health (NEGRAS) of the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (URFB), Dr. Denize Ribeiro and the representative of the Association of People with Sickle Cell Diseases, Maria Cândida Queiroz.

The XNUMXst Colloquium on the Health of the Black Population was coordinated by professors Karine de Souza Oliveira Santana, Lavínia Boaventura and Eleonora Peixinho.

THE PARTNERSHIP

The Vida Plena Community Complex is part of a Hólon Society project that offers activities both in the academic center and in clinical care. “We made an investment in training more qualified professionals, in order to really contemplate the needs of society”, declares Eleonora Peixinho, who is also the medical director of the CCVP.

"The purpose of this event is to form a space with the objective of exchanging knowledge, discussing and sensitizing as many people as possible to racism, as we know that it is structuring and permeates various aspects of the population's needs", reports Prof. .ª of Public Health of the Bahiana, Karine de Souza Oliveira.

For Prof. Dr. Maria Inês Barbosa, holding events of this nature is important, as it directly reflects on the training of future health professionals. "We are providing and inserting discussions in the institution that, in general, are not present and that are necessary because, as a training body for health professionals who deal with the population, it has to have basic training to understand what these conditions and determinants are. health and racism is one of them, as it directly impacts on living conditions and, consequently, on the way people fall ill and die”, he explains.

“As a psychologist, I think this space is valid, as we discuss subjectivity, psychic suffering and debate important issues that the population in general suffers, but that the black population is forgotten,” says Tainã Silva, graduated from Bahiana.

According to student Camila Ribeiro, from the 4th semester of the Psychology course at Bahiana, the lectures allowed an expansion of knowledge as health professionals. “It hurts a lot to see the way in which the black race is still discriminated against and, unfortunately, it is a reality that we face. Skin color should not interfere with any kind of relationship whatsoever. All of us, regardless of race, should have equal rights”, he concludes.

The 4th semester student of psychology, Mayara Borges, highlights the importance of discussing aspects related to racism. “These discussions are important because it is visible that black people are treated differently in all fields and not just in health. The fact that a black woman, in childbirth, receives less analgesia than white women, it is absurd to think that because you are black you have more resistance to pain”.

"Health necessarily implies taking care of the other, regardless of where he comes from and who he is, so we seek to strengthen the training of our students, professionals and citizens with this broadened and anti-racist perspective, because the truth is that we are inserted in a Western society very racist”, concludes the People Development coordinator at Bahiana, Prof. Luiza Ribeiro.

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