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. 2022 Dec 14;19(24):16784.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416784.

Teaching of the Black Population's Health: Anti-Racist Lenses for a Paradigm Shift to Address Racial Inequities

Ana Paula Borges Carrijo  1 , Anna Luísa Dias Bastos de Moura  1 , Augusto Cézar Polveiro E Oliveira  1 , Lígia Villela Rodrigues  1 , Janaina de Oliveira  1 , Thiago Figueiredo de Castro  1 , Odete Messa Torres  1 , Katia Crestine Poças  1 , Rodolfo Deusdará  1
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Teaching of the Black Population's Health: Anti-Racist Lenses for a Paradigm Shift to Address Racial Inequities

Ana Paula Borges Carrijo et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Health (and its dialectical pair-illness) is determined by multiple factors: social class, educational background, income, occupation, and race/skin color. Racism can directly impact physical and psychological illnesses, with an effect on social conditions of health. This paper discusses: (1) racism as a root cause of health inequities in Brazil and elsewhere, and (2) how students at the University of Brasilia School of Medicine respond to an anti-racist curriculum. We emphasize that an environment of profound exchanges in the teaching-learning process, adopting anti-racism praxis as a competency in the medical curriculum, is a paradigm shift in medical education and future practice.

Keywords: higher education; medical curriculum; race/ethnicity; racism.

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