Caracterização socioepidemiológica em comunidades quilombolas do nordeste do Pará-Amazônia, Brasil

Abstract

The trajectory of the black population in the Brazilian historical context gave rise to Quilombola Communities, which consolidated themselves in spaces of resistance against slavery based on their social, economic and cultural relations. This context has generated significant consequences for blacks, such as the great socioeconomic and environmental inequalities, which contribute to the mortality process for diseases linked to the precarious living conditions to which these populations are subjected. The objective of this research was to characterize the main socio-environmental and epidemiological problems of anthropic origin existing in the quilombola communities of Taperinha and Sauá-Mirim, in the Municipality of São Domingos do Capim - PA, which contribute to the illness process. The research was carried out apart from a quantitative and descriptive study, through bibliographical surveys, field research, with the use of a questionnaire applied to the communities under study, with closed and open questions, (related to socioeconomic, epidemiological, environmental issues, etc. .) and Chek-list. After collection, the data were stored and tabulated for the elaboration of figures and graphs that served as a means of better visualization, presentation and discussion of the results. These showed that these Communities have a high poverty rate, related to socioeconomic, cultural and environmental issues, which are responsible for the conditions of social inequality. As well as for the interference in the quilombola's way of life, recurrence of infectious diseases and incidences of chronic degenerative diseases, which have shown to have important epidemiological repercussions when referring to quilombola communities. Finally, it is worth noting that these results will be made available for future academic publications, in order to serve as subsidies for new researches matched with the Study in question, as well as other focus themes referring to quilombolas, so that the results found may contribute to the development projects and greater public attention in relation to quilombola communities.