Condições de saúde da população negra: análise das desigualdades raciais nas doenças crônicas não transmissíveis e pandemia da Covid-19

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the health conditions of the black population in chronic noncommunicable diseases and inequalities evidenced in the Covid-19 pandemic. It is divided into 3 productions of scientific articles, adopting two different elaboration methodologies. The first two productions refer to the development of systematic review protocols that have been published in international journals. The two protocols were registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews Platform (PROSPERO) obtaining a favorable opinion for publication and development of the reviews. The first systematic review protocol was designed to assess racial differences in illness and death from Covid-19, while the second protocol aims to carry out a systematic review to assess the prevalence of Covid-19 in black people cared for in primary care units. health care units, hospital units and intensive care units. The development of the two reviews will be in accordance with the declaration of items in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), respecting each step of the development of a review. The third article aimed to analyze the prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases in Brazil according to race/skin color based on the results of the National Health Survey. To analyze the outcomes, issues related to chronic diseases were considered. Race/skin color was determined as the dependent variable and sociodemographic variables as adjustment variables. Poisson regression was applied to estimate the prevalence ratio (PR) and the respective 95% confidence interval (95%CI) using the sample weight and incorporating the effect of the sample design. The results showed a higher prevalence of arterial hypertension and multimorbidity. Black race/skin color was shown to be a risk factor for hypertension, diabetes and stroke. Socioeconomic inequalities, structural racism, and cultural differences can result in immediate and long-term barriers to adequate health care for these populations. Policy makers in all nations must formulate policies and strategies that can reach this population, thus making health care equitable for all.