Human diversity and intersectionality: problematization in the education of health professionals

Inspired by game-based learning interventions in the field of education, we describe the development of a board game with characters who have characteristics representing privilege and historical social and economic inequalities. This article is an experience report aimed at describing a pedagogical strategy that makes human diversity visible developed with undergraduate health students at a university in the northeast of Brazil. Topics related to diversity, intersectionality and power relations were debated in dialogue with racism, machismo, capacitism and the operationalization of health policies and their influence on professional practice. The pedagogical strategy demonstrates that these questions are invisible in health practices and just how much discourses that legitimize inequalities are often sustained, making them normal. This demonstrates the importance of problematizing the topics addressed by this study in the education of health professionals.

Keywords Human diversity; Intersectionality; Health education; Games; Public health