Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JUCICLEIA MAIARA DA SILVA FREITAS

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JUCICLEIA MAIARA DA SILVA FREITAS
DATE: 19/09/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Virtual
TITLE:

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: THE UNIFIED HEALTH SYSTEM AND RACIAL (IN)VISIBILITY IN HEALTH CARE

KEY WORDS:

Institutional Racism; Unified Health System; Primary Health Care; Health Equity; Black Population.

PAGES: 110
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Saúde Coletiva
SUBÁREA: Saúde Pública
SUMMARY:

This study investigates institutional racism in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), focusing on Primary Health Care (PHC) and the implementation of the National Policy for the Comprehensive Health of the Black Population (PNSIPN), understanding race as a structuring element of social and health inequalities in Brazil. Based on the assumption that racism is not a deviation or failure but a system that organizes social and institutional relations, the research aims to analyze how health professionals incorporate the racial dimension into care and to what extent the PNSIPN has contributed to implementing the principle of equity in SUS. Specifically, it seeks to identify the professionals’ perceptions of race and its relationship with the health-disease-care process, to assess how institutional racism is expressed in the daily practices of services, and to examine the effectiveness of the policy in addressing racial inequities in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba. The methodology adopts a qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory approach, involving health professionals linked to the Family Health Strategy. Data collection is carried out through semi-structured interviews, guided by a previously developed script that enables the exploration of perceptions, experiences, and practices related to health care for the Black population. The data are analyzed using Bardin’s Content Analysis, articulated with the critical framework of Collective Health, the social determination of health, and Afrocentric epistemologies, which allows understanding the meanings attributed by the subjects to the phenomenon investigated and its implications in SUS practices. The expected results include the identification of patterns of racial invisibility, the forms of manifestation of institutional racism in care practices, and the contradictions between the normative guidelines of PNSIPN and its materialization in the territory. The study intends to reveal how institutional discourses and practices may reinforce stigmas and inequalities, but also how specific professional experiences may signal possible paths for building more equitable and anti-racist care practices. Furthermore, it seeks to provide empirical evidence on the barriers faced by the Black population in accessing health services, highlighting the intersections between race, gender, and social class. In its final considerations, the research aims to contribute to strengthening SUS as a universal, integral, and equitable public policy, emphasizing the need to recognize institutional racism as an obstacle to the realization of the right to health. It advocates the incorporation of PNSIPN as a strategic management and care instrument, capable of qualifying professional training, increasing the sensitivity of health teams, and guiding practices based on racial justice. By highlighting the centrality of race as an analytical category and as a social determinant of the health-disease-care process, the study offers technical and political support for the formulation of strategies to confront racial inequalities, strengthening the health equity agenda and contributing to a science committed to social transformation and the historical reparation of inequities that affect the Black population in Brazil.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1543230 - ELIANA COSTA GUERRA
Interna - 2568454 - ELISANGELA FRANCO DE OLIVEIRA CAVALCANTE
Externa ao Programa - 1210014 - JOSIANE SOARES SANTOS - UFRN