Health promotion and accomplishment of Health Care Reform in the context of indigenous populations

ABSTRACT

Brazil has always had historic practices and excluding politics that almost decimated the varied indigenous peoples. Seeking a voice and inclusion, the movement of original populations counted on the presence of communities’ representatives to consolidate the Health Care Reform. Health indigenous advisors and indigenous heath agents promoted resilience to claim, protect, and cure relations, dealing with the biomedical perspective, and the performance of non-indigenous professionals. The present study aims to emphasize interdisciplinary placement and collaborative learnings among original populations’ heath actors in the current Brazilian health system for the promotion of health among original peoples. Through an integrative review, it was proposed a glossing over the impact of professional qualification emphasizing ethnic issues and practices proper to such context, possibilities of a non-colonizational and inclusive actuation, and the contribution of several actors, indigenous or not, that made such health sub-system possible, considering its specificities and its own way of working in health. Autonomy, focused on empowerment, strengthened by the recognition of the essential role of indigenous peoples and non-indigenous contributors established for such health assistance, consolidated Health Reform also in these territories, trying to achieve universality in service access, integrality of care, promotion of equity, and reduction of inequities.

KEYWORDS:
Interdisciplinary placement; Health promotion; Heath care reform; Health of indigenous peoples