HEALTH AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CARE WORK CARRIED OUT BY BLACK WOMEN IN CONTEXTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: A STUDY IN THE FELIPE CAMARÃO NEIGHBORHOOD IN NATAL, RN.
Environmental racism. Women. Domestic care work.
This dissertation project aims to identify the relationships between the burden resulting from responsibility for care work and the illness of Black women living in contexts of environmental racism, using the Felipe Camarão neighborhood in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, as the locus of investigation. Based on the expanded concept of health, which recognizes it as the result of multiple social determinants and conditioning factors, the research questions focus on investigating whether factors resulting from the burden involved in care work cause the illness of Black women living in contexts of environmental racism. Methodologically, the proposed research combines exploratory and descriptive approaches, with data collected from bibliographic, documentary, and empirical sources.