This perspective, intense socioeconomic and environmental changes that have been going these people, including subsistence and diet, are enablers of change in oral health status known aspects. The epidemiology of oral health among indigenous peoples in Brazil is little known, which reflects a more general framework of ignorance about the health of these populations. Despite the fragmentation and lack of historical data on the history of contact between indigenous people and other population groups in Brazil records, it is known that the effects of this interaction on the profiles of illness and death were significant. įor proper understanding of the health-disease process on indigenous peoples it is necessary to appeal to the historical relations in which human societies are inserted. Any discussion of the health-disease process of indigenous peoples need to take into consideration, in addition to epidemiological and demographic dynamics, the enormous existing social diversity.
The epidemiological profile of indigenous peoples is little known, which stems from the insufficiency of investigations, surveys and censuses, as well as the inaccessibility of information on morbidity and mortality systems. Is directly related to historical processes of social, economic and environmental changes, linked to the expansion and consolidation of demographic and economic fronts of society in various regions of the country. The health of indigenous peoples of Brazil presents complex and dynamic way. Geographical location of the Indian Territory Xukuru Ororubá and its division according to the socio-environmental regions and villages. These changes are called acculturation, which is perceived as a result of an exchange process in which two cultures mutually absorb their characteristics and customs generating a new reference.
The approval of the land in this population resulted in changes in the social context that seems to have contributed in some way to changes in the mode of life of this population. After the retaking of their lands the indigenous territory Xukuru now has 25 villages that are distributed in three environmentally bounded regions: the Ribeira, the Serra and the Agreste ( Figure 1). The Xukuru suffered from the loss of traditional lands to allow their social and cultural reproduction and were the target of every source of discrimination, especially from the eighteenth century. Located in Pesqueira in the Sierra Ororubá, 216km from Recife (principal city of Pernambuco State) and has a population of approximately 10.000 indigenous. The indigenous people Xukuru has the largest indigenous ethnic population group among the 10 ethnic groups of Pernambuco. In addition, for cultural or relationship with the environment reasons, require specific public policies. In Brazil, as in many other parts of the world, indigenous peoples are constitute as one of the most disadvantaged segments of the economic, housing, educational standpoint and health indicators, as revealed by the census and other surveys that measure conditions life of the population. Thus insert the different ways in national society.
Indigenous peoples in Brazil have particular configurations of customs, beliefs and language, forms of integration with the environment, history of interaction with the settlers and relationship with the Brazilian state.
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