Healthy and Sustainable Territories: health care strategies for rural black population in Caruaru/Pernambuco

Abstract

In the Brazilian social formation, it is possible to understand the similarities between racial and agrarian issues in the country, since both are part of the same structural dimension. The understanding of structural racism is elementary to apprehend the social determination process of racial inequities in health, and it is important to highlight that such inequities are one of the expressions of racism as a broader process of exploitation. This work is an intervention research that aimed to analyze the interference of racism in the health-disease-care process of black families living in the countryside and describe the intervention activities developed to build a healthier and more sustainable territory with a focus on promoting community health, a shared action between professionals residents in Family Health Care and settlement dwellers, located in Caruaru-PE. Primary data used were: field diaries and other documents prepared by the resident team; and secondary data: Participatory Rural Diagnosis (DRP) systematization, a tool applied in the territorialization process. The activities were based on popular health education and used playing as a strategy to promote a Healthy and Sustainable Territory (TSS), using fight against racism as a transversal axis.