Documents Santana, Vilma S. 4 results

"Large numbers of workers worldwide work informally. Yet the discipline and practice of occupational health and safety covers largely only formal workers, in formal work places. A comprehensive approach would have to take into account specific hazards faced by those in different occupations, working in “atypical” work places. Local authorities exert significant influence in the provision of infrastructure that impacts on health and safety, such as water and sanitation. Examples from Brazil and Ghana show that positive interventions are possible so long as informal workers are recognized as contributing to the economy. A more inclusive occupational health and safety is most likely to happen in contexts where informal workers have an organized voice and where there are responsive health and safety personnel who understand that the world of work has changed. Some policy interventions that impact on healthy and safe work will need to involve multiple stakeholders and institutions."

"This study describes how occupational health data have been gathered by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) to provide morbidity and mortality estimates for formal and informal workers. In 2007, data on work-related diseases and injuries was incorporated into the compulsory notification system (SINAN) and analyzed by the SUS occupational health service network, which covers all Brazilian states. However, this work has not been fully implemented, resulting in the large-scale undercounting and underreporting of cases, particularly in relation to informal workers. This is suggestive of barriers that prevent access to services and good quality health care. The inclusion of work-related diseases and injuries in SINANs appears to be a feasible strategy for the collection of useful data for the surveillance of the entire universe of workers, particularly in countries where informal workers prevail within the labor force. Attention needs to be paid to the disparities in access and quality that affect low-paid, informal workers."

"Estimar a incidência anual de acidentes não fatais de acordo com variáveis sociodemográficas e ocupacionais entre empregadas em serviços domésticos.Estimou-se a incidência anual de acidentes de trabalho não fatais em 5,0%, maior entre as empregadas em serviços domésticos (7,3%) do que entre as demais trabalhadoras (4,5%), diferença estatisticamente significante (p<0,05). Metade dos acidentes entre empregadas em atividades domésticas causou efeitos, freqüentemente não incapacitantes, mas que levaram 38,1% dessas mulheres a faltar ao trabalho.Mulheres com emprego em atividades domésticas representam um contingente expressivo da força de trabalho e a alta incidência de acidentes ocupacionais não fatais entre elas revela sua importância em saúde pública, o que requer ações apropriadas de prevenção."

"Objectives: To study the relationship between history of child and adolescent labor, and age at beginning of work to height in the adult age, taken into the analysis socioeconomic variables and skin color. Methods: This is a community-based cross-sectional study carried out with a random one-stage area cluster sample of all households from the city of Aracaju, the capital of Sergipe state, northeast Brazil. The study population comprises 3,262 individuals from 18 to 65 years of age, paid or unpaid workers. Data was obtained in individual household interviews based on questionnaires. Child labor was defined as any paid job under 14 years of age. Multiple linear regression models were used to estimate the association between child and adolescent labor history and age of work onset to height."