Do trabalho infantil às LER/DORT : o perfil dos trabalhadores atendidos no CEREST/VALES.

Abstract

The enormous quota of people sickened by RSIs (Repetitive Strain Injuries) nowadays makes this group of diseases a new epidemy in Brazil. They are mostly manual workers in plain produtive age. As these injuries don't simply show up, they are up to be analyzed and investigate all causes of these diseases. Between the causes are the amount of work, the body structure, the workplace organization, the excess of work, the kind of activity, among others. Observing this reality we have realized that child labor affects both mental and fisical health of the exposed people, making difficult the possibiliy to be studying and it is the main cause to musculoskeletal sickness. Among various intelectual, moral and psychological losses, child labor can also lead to fisical illnesses that comes to show up on the adult age. This way, it is necessary to closely watch these questions to be fighting against labor between persons younger than 14 years old. As in most researches it is necessary to be showing, quantifying, comparing and presenting data that does prove the problem. And that is what this study intends to do: to give visibility to the problem and to offer more arguments to fight child labor by the profile of 147 workers in a universe of 278 records with history of child labor in which the adult life diagnostics were the incapacitating and limiting RSIs.