Cauê MATA,
Helenadja MOTA,
Climene CAMARGO,
Abstract
The approach to health at school, as well as its articulation with education, has been debated in the school space when the issue revolves around the student's living conditions. The interaction between health and education is an important way to achieve quality of life and social equity of the individual, when pedagogical practices must be in line with the reality experienced by the community where the school is inserted, especially when it comes to communities who have their own cultural traits and are in social vulnerability, such as the black quilombola communities. Quilombola communities, in general, are in conditions of vulnerability and inequality, from the perspective of health and social context, with regard to the susceptible condition of human beings, given the disadvantages for social mobility, which prevent them from enjoying of the right to better living conditions, since their citizenship is compromised1. The poorest populations are the most susceptible to health problems, as they have less access to health services and the practices that promote it 2. This is because inequities can generate less access to healthy foods and information about the importance of physical exercise, which, in addition to the question, becomes a driver for the prevalence of obesity in the black and low-income population 3. In addition, adolescence is a phase characterized by biopsychosocial changes, which contributes to health risks.It is from this point that this research mapped the incidence of overweight and obesity and their impacts on the body image of the students in the study in quilombola students from Mare Island- Brazil. A prevalence of 11.9% of the participating quilombola students was identified with overweight and obesity and serious impacts on the body image of the students in the study. Public policies and pedagogical actions are necessary in the prevention and control of obesity in school adolescents in the context of quilombola school education.
Mots clés : black population |quilombola|body image |adolescent
A105605MS