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0159/2021 - Gender and racial inequalities in the access and the use of health services in Brazil
Desigualdades de gênero e raciais no acesso e uso dos serviços de atenção primária à saúde no Brasil

Author:

• Barbara Cobo - Cobo, B. - <cobo.barbara@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4839-0776

Co-author(s):

• Claudia Cruz - Cruz, C. - <caucuz@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8788-3445
• Paulo César Dick - Dick, P. C. - <paulopcdick@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-7230


Abstract:

Based on the National Health Survey - PNS 2019, this article aims to evaluate, gender and racial inequalities in the access and use of health services in Brazil. The main objective is to understand how men and women, white, black, or brown, seek medical care in Primary Health Care, the gateway to the Brazilian health system. Analysesa gender perspective show that cultural and social patterns affect individual actions, choices, access and use of health services. The results also indicate that men and women reproduce the expected gender behavior, socially and culturally constructed, which impacts their self-assessment of health status, care, and their exposure to the risk of disease and death. The intersectional analysis reveals that racial inequalities are combined with those observed between men and women, exponentializing vulnerabilities for people that identifies themselves as black or brown, reflecting the structural socioeconomic inequalities of Brazilian society. In this context, the universality and integrality recommended in the National Health System contribute as a public policy to the guarantee of rights, equalization of opportunities and effective access to equal care.

Keywords:

Inequalities, Gender, Health Services, Health Policies

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Cobo, B., Cruz, C., Dick, P. C.. Gender and racial inequalities in the access and the use of health services in Brazil. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2021/May). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/gender-and-racial-inequalities-in-the-access-and-the-use-of-health-services-in-brazil/18058?id=18058&id=18058



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