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 qualitative study had the goal of analyzing illness among the workers of the Basic Units of the Family Health Strategy in the city of Campo Grande, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, between 2015 and 2016. The data regarding the medical leaves of the workers were obtained from the databases of the Management System of Human Capital for Public Service (Sistema de Gestão de Capital Humano para o Serviço Público) and of the System of Municipal Welfare Institute (Instituto Municipal de Previdência). Among the workers with medical leaves longer than 30 days (n =114), 39 answered the four scales of the Inventory on Work and Risk of Illness. The main reasons for the medical leaves were related to the diagnoses of mental and behavioral disorders (337; 53%) and to diseases of the osteomuscular system and of the connective tissue (171; 27%). The rates regarding the risks of falling ill in the context of labor were only satisfactory for the pleasure indicators at work scale, in the professional achievement and freedom factor. The indicators at work scale and assessment of work-related injury presented serious risk, and the scales of assessment of the work context and human cost of labor presented critical risk. The workers are physically and emotionally ill, and in need of interventions to improve the quality of their lives and the efficacy of the services provided to the population.
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