Health of the black immigrant population during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review

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https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v11i1.24073

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Emigrants and Immigrants; COVID-19; Racism; Global Health.

Abstract

The black population has had a distinct impact on incidence and lethality during the COVID-19 pandemic. On immigrants, there are gaps in their health reality, few countries identify the nationality of the infected population or those who died because of COVID-19 in the notification forms. The aim of this research is to identify the health situation of black immigrants in the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. The method chosen was a scoping review, with the formulation of a research question that sought information about the health situation of black immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Primarily 807 documents were founded, among them, there were petitions, books, manuals, reports, editorials, letters to the editor, and articles. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, as well as removing repeated files, 13 materials remained to compose the final sample of this review, including articles, letters to the editor, editorial, and commentary. The data point to silence from the academic community and a lack of in-depth debates on how structural racism is decisive in the health of the black population, as well as material that discussed the health of the immigrant population in general.

Author Biographies

Aida Maris Peres, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Graduate and Bachelor of Nursing and Midwifery from the Federal University of Paraná (1989), Master's Degree in Administration from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2002), Doctor of Nursing from the University of São Paulo (2006), Post-Doctorate from the University from Alicante, Spain (2011), Visiting researcher at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (2018). Deputy Head of the Research Group on Health Policies, Management and Practices. She is Professor of the Graduate Program in Nursing and Associate Professor IV of the Federal University of Paraná, where she teaches courses in Nursing (Postgraduate, Master and Doctorate) and Biomedical Informatics (Graduation). She has experience in the area of ​​Health Services Administration, acting in the following topics: Health Management, Public Policies, Nursing Management, Health Information, Professional Competence, Nursing Training, Nursing Administration and Research in Administration of Nursing.

Rafaela Gessner Lourenço, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Nurse. Graduation in nursing from the Federal University of Paraná (2011). Master of Science from the Graduate Program in Nursing at the University of São Paulo (2013). Doctor by the Interunits Doctoral Program in Nursing at the USP School of Nursing and Nursing School of Ribeirão Preto (2018). Member of the Research Group on Gender Health and Nursing - USP, of the Center for Studies in Public Health (NESC) at UFPR and of the Research Group on Gender, Women and Citizenship at USCS. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Nursing at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in the area of Public Health. Collaborating professor of the Postgraduate Program in Health Care at UFPR (PPGPCS). Associate Editor of the Journal Acta Paulista de Enfermagem. She is currently a representative of Aben-PR in the Human Resources Commission of the Municipal Health Council of Curitiba-PR.

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SILVA, F. A. J. da .; PERES, A. M. .; LOURENÇO, R. G. . Health of the black immigrant population during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review. Research, Society and Development, [S. l.], v. 11, n. 1, p. e2511124073, 2022. DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v11i1.24073. Disponível em: https://www.rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/24073. Acesso em: 18 apr. 2024.

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