Brazil has the world's largest population of African descent outside of the African continent and high levels of racial miscegenation (ethnicity mixing process). 1 According to the Brazilian census bureau, the population's racial composition in 2015 was 45.2% Whites, 45.1% Brown, 8.9% Black, 0.5% Asian and 0.4% Indigenous. Experiences of discrimination reported by adults are adversely related to mental health and physical health indicators, including preclinical indicators of disease, health behaviours, utilization of care and adherence to