The risk of suicide among black youth in Brazil is 45% higher than that among whites
National Black Awareness Day was celebrated on November 20th, a date to raise awareness of the strength, resilience and suffering that the black population has experienced throughout history and still faces today. And here it is worth making a clarification: the black population is more exposed to mental health problems.
Some data from the Ministry of Health shows that the risk of suicide among black adolescents and young people in Brazil is 45% higher than among whites. In the age group between 10 and 29 years this percentage is up to 50% higher. This raises great concern, especially because it shows that this higher suicide rate is a portrait of the very intense psychological suffering of the black population.
We know that suicide is normally associated with the presence of a mental disorder, such as depression, anxiety, drug addiction, and that these mental health problems are often conditioned by prejudice, social exclusion and racism, violence that affects the population on a daily basis. . black.
In addition to this direct impact on mental health, this prejudice, this structural racism keeps these young people away and, in general, keeps the black population away from accessing health services. It is more difficult for the black population to access health services, receive good care and remain in care at that health service.
It is very important to understand all this in order to change this situation. Structural racism conditions the succession of exclusions, violence, aggression and prejudices which cause the black population to suffer more and have greater difficulty accessing mental health services.
It is essential that we all do our part. It is important that each of us plays an active role in this fight, in this fight against racism in Brazil. It’s not enough not to be racist. We must be anti-racist and we must guarantee the same rights, the same possibilities to all Brazilians, especially to the black population.
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