Racism, health and pandemic: a narrative review of the relationship between black population and COVID-19 events in 2020.

Autor: Araújo MVR; Instituto Multidisciplinar de Reabilitação e Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia. R. Padre Feijó 312, casas 47 e 49, Canela. 40.110-170 Salvador BA Brasil. marcos.araujo@ufba.br., Pereira-Borges RC; Programa de Residência Multiprofissional Hospital Metropolitano Odilon Behrens, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Belo Horizonte. Belo Horizonte MG Brasil.
Jazyk: Portuguese; English
Zdroj: Ciencia & saude coletiva [Cien Saude Colet] 2024 Mar; Vol. 29 (3), pp. e11072023. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 22.
DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232024293.11072023
Abstrakt: This study aimed to analyze how scientific publications described and interpreted findings about the relationship between the Black population and events linked to COVID-19 in 2020. Narrative review with systematic search, in which a survey was conducted on articles published in 2020 in the Scopus, Medline/PubMed, and Web of Science databases. Initially, 665 articles were found, and after reading and applying the eligible criteria, the final number of 45 articles was reached. Epidemiological, observational studies, secondary data and developed in the United States predominated. Four groupings and respective findings emerged from the synthesis of information extracted: Main events in the Black population - high number of deaths and mortality rate; Direct relationships - poor health, housing, and work conditions; Intermediate relationships - low income and anti-Black prejudice; Comprehensive relationships - structural racism and social determinants of health. The identification of racial health disparities is an important finding about the dynamics of the pandemic among the Black population. However, multicausal explanations were limited. It is necessary to mobilize critical theoretical resources from ethnic and health studies to qualify research in order to support global actions to combat the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in this group.
Databáze: MEDLINE