Abstract
LANDGRAF, Julia; IMAZU, Nayara Emy e ROSADO, Rosa Maris. Challenges for Continuing Education in Indigenous Health: adapting the assistance of the Brazilian National Health System in the south of Brazil. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2020, vol.24, e190166. Epub 23-Set-2019. ISSN 1414-3283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/interface.190166.
This article is an experience report that aims to discuss the performance of Continuing Education activities about indigenous health in the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) in favor of the consolidation of rights. Continuing Education activities were carried out in SUS services. The main results show lack of knowledge about indigenous peoples in the region and about the specificities of indigenous health. Bureaucratic and organizational aspects of the services are viewed as hindrances, although equity is a constitutive principle of SUS. The presence of indigenous individuals in the activities opened space for a joint construction with the assisted population. Care provided according to different needs is seen by many health workers as a privilege; therefore, it is necessary that ethnic-racial inequalities and cultural differences are understood by professionals so that the SUS principles of universality and equity are brought into effect and the National Healthcare Policy for Indigenous Peoples (PNASPI) is strengthened.
Keywords : Indigenous people’s health; Continuing education; Public health.
