Abstract
According to the United Nations (2017), every 23 minutes a young black man, aged between 15 and 29 years, is murdered in Brazil. To understand the complexity that makes the Brazilian reality, it is necessary, initially, to reassess national history and consider racism and violence as “social determinants in health” (SDH). To the Brazilian National Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2006), SDH are the social, economic, cultural, ethnic/racial, psychological and behavioral factors that influence the occurrence of health problems and their risk factors in the population, playing roles important in the development of individuals. Due to the impact that violence and racism have individually and collectively, these phenomena should be seen as urgent public health problems. The Unified Health System has guidelines laid down in the Federal Constitution of 1988, universality, integrality and equality to the population’s access to health. However, in order to combat social inequalities, it was necessary to create the National Policy for Integral Health of the Black Population. The question is: Even with the advances in public policies for this population, what makes the data on violence and death alarming? The present work seeks to develop, therefore, an analysis of how violence and racism operate in the health, life, and death of black Brazilian youth.
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Public Health Policies and Practices
KEYWORDS
Health of black people, Violence, Coletive health, Necropolitic, Racism, SUS
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