Reproductive health of black women in Brazil

between theoretical production and political action

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Keywords:

Comprehensive Women's Health, Reproductive Health, Black Women, prejudice, discrimination

Abstract

An aspect present in various areas of our daily lives, inequality has been the subject of studies regarding the integral and reproductive health of black women in Brazil. The objective of this Integrative Literature Review seeks to discuss the theoretical parameters and assumptions already published about the various dimensions present in the theme. It is research under the qualitative research bias and articles were searched in several knowledge production platforms, namely: Virtual Health Library, Scielo, PePsic, PsycINF and websites of government programs of the Unified Health System - SUS. Based on the inclusion criteria, 11 productions were selected from a total of 63 articles found. It is concluded that prejudice and discrimination, still very present, according to the studies, can generate, based on effective measures, the expansion of the production of knowledge, training, and permanent education of social actors in the health area, generating equity in terms of health integral and reproductive role of black women in our country.

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Author Biographies

Janderson Costa Meira, Baptist Superior School of Amazonas - ESBAM

Human Resources Manager at UNIP – Manaus. Graduating in Psychology from Escola Superior Batista do Amazonas - ESBAM. Member of the Phenomenological-Existential Psychology Research Group (CNPq). Member of the Phenomenological-Existential Psychology Laboratory (LABFEN/UFAM). Attendant of the Psychological Duty Extension Project in schools of the public education system in Manaus. Academic director of the Academic League of Phenomenological-Existential Psychology – LAPFE (FAPSI/UFAM). Email: jandersonmeiraa@gmail.com Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9145-6465

Herbert Santana Garcia Oliveira , Baptist Superior School of Amazonas - ESBAM

Master in Psychology by the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Amazonas – PPGPSI/UFAM. Graduated from the Psychology Course at the Faculty of Psychology at the Federal University of Amazonas. Lecturer, member of the NDE and Deputy Coordinator of the Psychology Course at Escola Superior Batista do Amazonas – ESBAM. He was a career professor, member of the Board of Directors (CONDIR), President of the Structuring Teaching Nucleus (NDE-Licentiate in Pedagogy) and Coordinator of the Degree in Pedagogy at the Nature and Culture Institute of UFAM (INC/UFAM), campus Benjamin Constant- AM. E-mail: herbert.oliveira@esbam.edu.br Orcid: https://orcido.org/0000-0002-0505-5962

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Published

2023-06-29

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2, jul-dez (2023): Temas Livres em Psicologia e Educação

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Artigos