HEALTH EDUCATION FOR COMMUNITIES QUILOMBOLAS: LITERATURE REVIEW.

Introduction and objective: Known currently as quilombo communities, the remaining populations of quilombos are scattered throughout Brazil. Conduct a literature review of articles related to health education for quilombo communities published in the last five years. Methodology: The searches were made: Pubmed / Medline, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS), BIREME, bank theses and dissertations of Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination ( CAPES) / National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The descriptors, researched on the website of the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) were Maroons, health education, health maroon, primary prevention, knowledge, vulnerable communities, health care of maroon and family health. Results and conclusion: Upon careful reading of the sample were selected 4 items: Lack of hypertension and its determinants in southwestern Maroons of Bahia, Brazil. Health promotion in northeastern maroon population: educational intervention analysis in sickle cell anemia. Experiencing racism and violence: a study on the vulnerabilities of black women and the search for prevention of HIV / AIDS in remaining quilombo communities in Alagoas. Health education in quilombo communities. Few studies found in the literature on the subject: health education for quilombo communities. Thus, further studies are needed, it is an important tool to guide the community and to perform it is necessary to consider the cultural population representations, target and seek to build knowledge in order to guide the population on all the factors that They are related and may be the likely cause of the disease.