POR UMA POLÍTICA DE SAÚDE MENTAL DA POPULAÇÃO NEGRA NO SUS
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The implementation of public policies aimed at the health of the brazilian black population has been insufficient and this contributes to the maintenance of the racial hierarchy established by colonialism. In relation to mental health, the hospital-centered, pathological and centered on medicalization, eugenics and scientific racism, was hegemonic in the beginning of the 20th century, and it is updated on the 21st century through the Therapeutic Communities and the reintegration of hospitals as central elements of the Network of Psychosocial Care (RAPS). Extensive international literature highlights racism as an important producer of persistent suffering, with significant individual and collective damage. However, this has been a neglected topic in the national context, especially in Public Health. The proposition and construction of an effective public policy for the promotion of mental health involves the agreement between the different spheres of government of a racialized mental health policy, the overcoming of institutional racism and the radical break with the asylum model.
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