Agravos relacionados à atividade laboral dos trabalhadores de saúde das 15ª e 19ª CRS

Abstract

The objective was to investigate the accidents and injuries that affect health workers in the CEREST-Macronorte region. The study is a retrospective cross-sectional type with secondary data, of a quantitative nature, in which the socio-demographic variables, characteristics of registered notifications, characteristics of occupational injuries suffered by health workers. For the analysis the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 2.0 was used and the results were tabulated and presented in absolute and percentage numbers. SIST 331 notifications of health problems belonging to health professionals were registered. The Nursing team was the most affected professional category, and the majority of the individuals were female, had high school; were between the ages of 31 and 40, were municipal civil servants and had this occupation in the interval between one and 10 years. The most reported injury was the perforating-cut accident and the accidents of exposure to biological material. From the study, a high number of occupational accidents, a high index of underreporting of records, and incompleteness of data were noted, and there was a need to implement management strategies to overcome underreporting and improve data quality, thus providing greater security of care the user and the health worker.