Saúde do trabalhador : os agravos e a avaliação de ações coletivas na Região dos Vales no estado do Rio Grande do Sul.

Abstract

In the Collective Health the relations between work and health presents difficulties of action. The study searches to outline the necessary elements to implement the program of occupational health, in the basic network of Municipalities, belonging to Centro de Referência Regional em Saúde do Trabalhador of Regions Dos Vales – 2ª, 8ª, 13ª e 16ª Coordenadorias Regionais de Saúde. To understand what is necessary to municipalities 35 implement this policy we develop a explanatory-quantitative study followed by a qualitative study with content analysis. In the first stage were identified the Municipalities (nineteen) that realized, in 2006, notification of complaints. In the second stage, we interviewed eleven subjects, because six refused to participate and two were pilot studies. After speaking with the interviewed subjects, categories were identified: the perception of occupational health, the actions realized, what is necessary to implement this policy and the difficulties to develop the actions. It was found that each region and Municipality must find their strategies of action and the occupational health policies must be better understood, contextualizing the research, the policies and the changes in the work process.