Práticas de cuidado em saúde numa comunidade quilombola do agreste alagoano

Abstract

The health issue of the quilombola population is still a little debated topic in the academy, so we seek to respond to this demand more specifically in community health care, so we aim to analyze in the present research the narratives about the care practices present in a quilombola community in the agreste of Alagoas, as well as identifying the health care practices present in the quilombola territory and understanding how ethnic-racial issues are involved in the maintenance of health care practices produced in the community. Due to the pandemic situation, which forced us to adopt measures of social isolation, we opted to conduct semi-structured interviews with caregivers / curators and users of health care practices present in the quilombola territory, for this we count with the participation of a local agent, resident and one of the community leaders who participated not only in the mediation, but in the entire field and analysis elaboration process. After the interviews, based on the thematic analysis, we defined two thematic units: 1. Health care practices present in the community; 2. Yard, leaves, teas and garrafadas or other ways of talking about care, which were analyzed from the black narratives involved, which pointed to teas, garrafadas and other practices that use leaves and roots as reconfigured ancestral knowledge in the present from an ethics of care.