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12/03/2012
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Thais Leitão
Brazil Agency Reporter
Brasília - Cases of discrimination are easily identified by who is the butt of jokes, teasing, crossed eyes or different treatments. Measure the impacts that these episodes bring to people's health, however, is not common in Brazil. For Professor João Luiz Bastos, Department of Public Health, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), internationally broadcast strategies can help the country understand how discrimination can be associated, for example, the increased occurrence of depression, anxiety and hypertension.
"The international literature indicates a strong relationship between change in health boards with the phenomenon of discrimination. It is important that, in Brazil, are also developed studies that identify this impact, taking into account our forms of sociability and treat people in different instances, here also to see if these relationships are confirmed and how they confirm "defended Bastos, who is the author of Discrimination and Health: Perspectives and Methods, released in November by Publisher Fiocruz.
Among the methodologies that can be used by Brazilian researchers cited in the work produced in partnership with Professor Eduardo Faerstein, the Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), is known as auditing.
Through it are selected pairs of patients with similar characteristics, except the aspect that characterizes the discrimination that intends to investigate. They come in a health facility with the same types of clothing and ways of communicating and applying the same treatment.
"If there is differential treatment, with different referrals, can be detected discrimination and prejudice for the treatment of a particular disease," he said.
According to João Luiz Bastos, studies that identify and quantify these circumstances are essential to reduce the lack of health equity, "which may be in the relationship between health professionals and patients on prescription drug treatments or other surgical procedures and treatments, as well as within the users' satisfaction with the care provided. "
Professor of UFSC also cited the application of "major investigations" involving questions about discriminatory experiences and the development of health problems. "That way, we can evaluate the data and examine the relationship between life experiences and the occurrence of health problems," he explained.
The professor emphasized the innovative nature of the topic, noting that only during the 1990s discrimination came to be regarded as a complex phenomenon, not always identified. He recalled that, before 1920, racial discrimination, for example, was not even seen as an important research problem. He said discrimination in any area of everyday life can bring harm to health.
Pensioner Noadia Almeida says he has lost count of the times he was discriminated against because of the color of his skin. In one episode, she was prevented from leaving a department store in Tijuca north of Rio de Janeiro, after exchanging a piece he had bought for his daughter.
"I was leaving the store when two security guards told me to follow them to another sector and told another employee, 'took the Creole with the stuff in the bag'. As I had the receipt, I proved that the part was mine, but were minutes of angst, a lot of nervousness. Everyone looking at me, it was a horror, "she said, he came to missing a day of work because" violent emotional stress. "
The Ministry of Health informed through the press office, which has no data on the impact of discrimination on population health, but noted that develops various actions related to the theme, such as those associated with the National Humanization Policy, launched in 2003 . Through the initiative, the professionals of the Unified Health System (SUS) are trained and skilled in attendance to ensure the rights of the users, whatever their social class, skin color or physical or psychological condition.
Source: Agency Brazil
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