Reflections on the Covid-19 mortality among the Black population and racial inequality in Brazil

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3096752
AutoresMarianny Nayara Paiva Dantas (0000-0002-8891-0003, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte), Mercês De Fátima Dos Santos Silva (0000-0002-8124-6832, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte), Isabelle Ribeiro Barbosa (0000-0002-1385-2849, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte)
Año2022
Volumen31
Número3
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSaúde e Sociedade (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0104-1290 • E-ISSN: 1984-0470
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0104-12902022200667en
OpenAlexW4312414366
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas17

This literature critical analysis reflects on the social, political, and historical background responsible for racial discrepancies in hospital mortality by COVID-19 among the Brazilian population. During the pandemic, the COVID-19 mortality among the Black population gained notoriety. Rather than an isolated fact, this finding has historical roots dating back to Brazil's foundation and draws on structural racism, which reveals degrading living and health conditions experienced by the Black population before the pandemic. This situation of vulnerability affecting the Black population is a recurring scenario that is treated with the neglect inherent to structural racism. COVID-19 mortality portrays one way in which racism impacts and reproduces itself in the life and death of Black people

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Criminology · Geography · Inequality · Neglect · Pandemic · Population · Racism · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing) · Demography · Gender Studies · Medicine · Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil