Meanings of Health Care Assigned by Quilombola Women / Significados Atribuídos por Mulheres Quilombolas ao Cuidado à Saúde

Abstract

Objetivo: conhecer os significados atribuídos por mulheres de uma comunidade quilombola ao cuidado à saúde. Método: estudo qualitativo descritivo, com vertente antropológica, realizado com mulheres quilombolas. Os dados foram produzidos por meio da técnica de grupo focal, analisados conforme a análise de conteúdo temática da proposta operativa e interpretados sob o prisma da antropologia interpretativa. Resultados: os significados atribuídos pelas mulheres ao cuidado à saúde estão condicionados ao trabalho, alimentação, higiene, atividade física e ações de prevenção de agravos à saúde, a partir da realização de exames preventivos e da prática de sexo seguro. Conclusões: os significados atrelados pelas mulheres quilombolas sobre o cuidado à saúde são considerados produtos culturais, que devem ser apreendidos dentro do contexto em que foram construídos e observados sob uma perspectiva cultural.

The Intersectionality Of Quilombola Woman And Her Needs Of Care: Evidence Of Scientific Literature

“…These conditions are associated with power relations that demarcate the possibilities and impossibilities of appropriation of certain material and symbolic resources by black women. The ongoing tensions between equality policies and equity policies pose challenges in guaranteeing the health rights of these populations (Viegas & Varga, 2016;Santos, 2018;Prates, 2015;Grossi, Oliveira & Bitencourt, 2018;Prates et al, 2018b, Nascimento, Arante, Carvalho, 2022.…”

“…Studies indicate how gender is a universal phenomenon, present in the relationships of inequality and oppression experienced by the black population, particularly by quilombola women. These express this inequality in a very unique way, since in their narratives there are different forms of racial and gender violence, both in the private and public environments (Prates et al 2018b).…”

“…In the public sphere, women feel the devastating effects of racial prejudice they suffer in their daily lives as a result of racism and sexism perpetrated against them in the course of history. It was observed that the narratives found in the studies included in this review highlight the emotional distress of quilombola women caused by racism indistinctly due to skin color, hair and the place where they have lived for many generations (Prates, 2015, Prates et al, 2018b. This exclusionary and subalternity situation, which in symbolic terms puts its communities in a position of invisibility in urban centers, creating a social imaginary of a distant place, of the existence of former slaves, subalternizing these groups as folkloric and framing them in scenarios of involution (Valentim, 2016;Souza, 2017;Prates, 2015, Prates et al, 2018b.…”

“…Quilombola women experience social inequities and adverse dimensions of access, which are seen as challenges to be faced in health care, linked to the different SSD, including the absence of a local health service to fully serve all residents and the difficulty of access to public health services, both for the distance and the lack of financial resources to pay for transportation to the health unit. Some studies have identified that this lack of resources increases the difficulty of access to care in the basic health units of the city, due to the fact that they are not residents of that coverage area, or by the flow of care established (Prates, 2015;Prates et al 2018b;Gomes et al, 2013;Durand, Heidemann, 2019;Durand, Heidemann, 2020;Roque, 2020;Santos et al, 2021;Nascimento, Arante, Carvalho, 2022).…”

“…The Intersectionality Of Quilombola Woman And Her Needs Of Care: Evidence Of Scientific Literature who, in their view, exercise routine and dispersonified care (Prudêncio, 2017;Prates, 2015;Prates et al, 2018b;Durand, 2019;Prates, et al, 2019).…”