Saúde dos Quilombolas na região Nordeste: uma revisão de literatura.

Abstract

The Unified Health System (SUS) seeks to support through its principles of equality, universality and equity to minimize the social inequalities faced by the black population in Brazil. Thus, the objective of this research is to review the current literature about the health status of the remaining Northeastern quilombola population. A literature review was carried out through research in the National Library of Medicine (PUBMED), government websites, Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo) and Google Scholar databases, in the last 10 years. 30 articles were found, of which 23 were excluded for not meeting the inclusion requirements. The research results affirm the negative self-perception regarding the health conditions of the quilombola communities in relation to other populations, being prone to the appearance of chronic non-communicable diseases and which are directly linked to the socioeconomic conditions and the environment in which they live. The difficulty in accessing health services increases inequalities, as well as ethnic diseases that, in most cases, are treated inadequately by health professionals and the limitations due to geographic isolation. Therefore, the access of quilombola communities, both to health professionals and to health services, is insufficient to meet the needs of these communities, which shows that the Brazilian health system needs to further facilitate access to health in these communities, to that in the future young people do not have the diseases that affect the elderly.