A assistência à saúde pública de idosos negros: um estudo em uma comunidade quilombola

Abstract

This investigative study aims to analyze the access of the elderly quilombola population in the Paratibe community, in the municipality of João Pessoa-PB, to public health services, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, from 2019 to the end of 2021. Access to health is a constitutional right that must be guaranteed by the Brazilian State. Studying the access to public health of elderly black quilombolas is an extremely important topic, especially in periods of attack on social rights and reduction of the State's participation in addressing existing social problems. Thus, assessing the level of access of this population to health services certainly contributes to a deeper reflection on the need for universalization of this right, a basic principle of the SUS and our Citizen Charter, and that this universalization can be implemented more effectively for all groups whose access to public goods and services is known to be more difficult. The proposed methodological approach initially involves data collection through semi-structured interviews with the elderly of the Paratibe quilombola community. In this sense, we aim to evaluate, in general, through the listening of these elderly, how access to public health care was for this quilombola group before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the beginning of 2019 until the end of December 2021. It also intends to identify the existence or not of protocols, flows, brochures, or technical notes from public authorities that collaborate in improving the access of the elderly in the Paratibe quilombola community to public health services in the large João Pessoa-PB.