Gonçalves Júnior Jucier, Freitas Jucycler Ferreira, Cândido Estelita Lima
Internal Medicine - Division of Rheumatology, São Paulo University, São Paulo 01246-903, Brazil.
Post Graduate Program in Sustainable Regional Development, Federal University of Cariri, Juazeiro do Norte 63048-080, Ceara, Brazil.
World J Psychiatry. 2022 May 19;12(5):766-769. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v12.i5.766.
The aim of this paper was to report on factors contributing to the deterioration of the mental health of Indigenous populations (IP) in Brazil. Five factors seem to have a direct impact on the mental health of IP in Brazil: (1) The absence of public policies; (2) Intellectual production; (3) Psychiatric medical care for remote areas ( telemedicine) aimed at promoting the mental health of Brazil's IP, which causes a huge gap in the process of assistance and social, psychological, economic and cultural valorization of native peoples; (4) The dissemination of fake news, which exposed, above all, older IP to risk behaviors in the pandemic, such as refusal of vaccination; and (5) The violence carried out on IP lands due to economic interests with mining/agribusiness.
