Primary Health Care in Brazil and the LGBTI+ population: An integrative review

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article mainly focuses on the healthcare attention provided to the LGBTI+ population in Primary Healthcare within the Brazilian context. To achieve this, we sought to analyze the literature produced on the experiences of healthcare attention to the LGBTI+ population in Primary Healthcare in Brazil through an integrative literature review and thematic content analysis to identify, analyze, and report patterns within the researched data. The studies were classified and ordered according to the year of publication, region of the country, methodology used, and participant status. Although the researched period began in 2012, publications were only recorded in 2015. Between the years 2016 and 2019, there was an increase in the number of published studies related to the theme of this research. The decrease in publications in 2020 may be related to the reduction of activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also concluded that moral and religious factors have a strong impact on prejudice and discrimination, and there are reports in the literature of healthcare professionals being anchored in cultural teachings, family influence, and social groups that do not accept sexual and gender diversity, contributing to the distancing of the LGBTI+ population from the healthcare services offered by Unified Health System (SUS).