Obstetric violence, raciality device, maternal mortality and public policy.

The present research is structured in three chapters, bringing an overview of maternal mortality in Brazil from the 80s until the pandemic year of 2021, main causes of maternal death and the model of obstetric care of SUS, making an analysis of the difficulty with the data, especially those disaggregated by race/color. Addresses obstetric violence as a strategic analytical category for women to enunciate their pain, detailing the known forms of violence in obstetric services and the resistance of health professionals to recognize the term, denying the repeated violating practices. It brings an analysis of the raciality device in obstetric care (from pregnancy to the puerperium and abortion situations) that marks or kills black women daily in a logic of instrumentalization, control and the extermination of black bodies and programmed precarization by the market, where the ethno-racial identity/affiliation determines the model of care, demonstrating that obstetric violence reveals the ingenious perversity of the state in managing pain and death of a certain population group, allowing confirmation of the hypothesis that gave title to this work, CAUSA MORTIS: RACISM, and demonstrating the importance of race/ethnicity transversality in health as a strategy to prevent obstetric violence that will impact maternal mortality rates, highlighting the need to intersect health policies with race and ethnicity equity policies, with the confrontation of racism as a presupposition of training and performance in health.