Reflections on the COVID-19 mortality among the Black population and racial inequality in Brazil
Saude e Sociedade
; 31(3) (no pagination), 2022.
Article
in English, Portuguese
| EMBASE | ID: covidwho-2154442
ABSTRACT
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. Copyright © 2022, Universidade de Sao Paulo. Museu de Zoologia. All rights reserved.
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EMBASE
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South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
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Portuguese
Journal:
Saude e Sociedade
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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