Environmental racism and health: The pandemic of covid-19 in Piauí, Brazil

Abstract

In the light of the relevance of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, the present essay establishes as a reflection environmental racism and health in the state of Piauí to contribute to the effective development of information that can serve as guidelines for more effective preventive actions, understanding environmental racism, then, a process related to inequalities, but also in the operation of public policy to define priority groups for the maintenance of their health, in addition to calling into question which strategies should be built to ensure the health of these vulnerable groups. Thus, to break this reality in order to achieve benefits, it would be from the change of attitude of the State and society as a whole.