Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
This article aimed to discuss gender, race, and education as social markers that influence the participation of community health workers in matrix support in mental health in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2023. The results are from a qualitative research study, using semi-structured interviews and participant observations as data production techniques. Intersectionality was used as an analytical tool. In the researched teams, it was observed that the majority of the agents were black women with high school education, while the majority of the professionals offering matrix support were white women with higher education. These racial and educational differences influence the relationships established between agents and supporters, being related to some mechanisms of exclusion of community health workers from the spaces of matrix support in mental health.
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