CEERT

PORTUGUÊS - FRANÇAIS

Health Program: this project aims to characterize the psychic damage caused by violence of race and gender in work relations; training of technicians and public administrators, including on methods and techniques for the collection of information on color.

The Federal Constitution prescribes the guarantee of universal and equal access to actions and services that seek promotion, protection and recovery of health, attributing the obligation of vigilance of epidemics, among others, to SUS (Only Health System), and insuring the participation of the community in the formulation and execution of the health policy.

In agreement with this treatment, the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination establishes that the right to health and medical treatment be exercised with equal conditions by the different racial groups.
In turn, the federal law that set up SUS determines the “equality of assistance to health, without preconceptions or privileges of any kind”.

It is interesting to observe that the SUS law foresees that health is subjected to certain factors and/or conditions, including food, residence, sanitation, environment, work, income, education, transport, leisure, access to goods and essential services etc.
The effort made by the Brazilian Black Movement in recent decades through their physicians, psychologists, researchers or activists in the health area is very evident. They have participated in the formulation of the health policies and emphasized racial belonging as a conditioning factor of health. The indicators and qualitative studies that, as example, point to a major incidence of certain pathologies in the Brazilian black population are very well known.

The principal action of CEERT in this area consists in developing an approach that allows us to evidence the permanent and irreversible nature of the damage caused by this prolonged experience of individuals in physical and symbolic violence resulting from racial discrimination.