Permanent health education and National Curriculum Guidelines to the education of ethnic-racial relations and teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture

Abstract

This text is an essay about the contributions that the Black Woman's Health specialization course as a strategy of Permanent Education can have produced to the approach of the contents related in the National Curriculum Guidelines to the Education of ethnic-racial relations and teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture as also attending to the National Policy for Integrated Health of the Black Population. From a brief background on the field of racial relations and affirmative actions in Brazil, we present the course organization and functioning, highlighting its objectives, contents, strategies. Focusing on health professionals, the course was attended by professionals from basic education, from the cities São Luis and Pinheiro, in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, implying the discussion of the theme black population (especially black women) health, in the context of health and school services. Although few participants have completed their papers, we observed that the course led to the development of research projects directly related to the black women health care and to health professionals' education and formative processes. It can be concluded, even temporarily, that the papers reveal that the course, from the perspective of lifelong learning, resulted in an effective strategy for studying the content related to DCNERER and the conditions of the attendance offered to black women in health services, and also the propositions of strategies and actions involved in the implementing process of National Policy for Integrated Health of the Black Population.