Rede de saúde do trabalhador na fronteira oeste do Rio Grande do Sul: programação e execução do trabalho

Abstract

Introduction: The health worker is configured as a specific area of public health and evolves at a slow pace. Little by little she gets up in the health care of the Unified Health System Over time several workers' health-related agencies have been created, including: a. National Network for Health Care Worker and the Reference Regional Centers Occupational Health. These are key pieces to the evolution of workers' health and the construction of networking. In 2012, that is, was recently enacted the Occupational Health of the National Policy and the worker, in order to qualify for health care workers and provide better support to the network of care to workers' health. Objectives: To learn the working process of the Health Network worker in the border region west of Rio Grande do Sul. Understand the organization of the work process in the border region west of Rio Grande do Sul. Identify the work of actions taken by workers in the border region west of Rio Grande do Sul. Methodology: Exploratory research , descriptive and analytical, cross developed with 21 professionals in the care network to workers' health of the western border of Rio Grande do Sul through semi-structured interview technique recorded. It was used as inclusion criteria: find in professional practice in the period of data collection and consents in writing to participate. Exclusion criteria were adopted : professionals who were covering off, vacation or leave of a member of the team. We applied a qualitative thematic analysis to all information . To organize the data it built a database in Microsoft Word 2010 version. Results: It highlights the predominance of nursing professionals within the staff of the network of health worker the western border of Rio Grande do Sul With regard to the planning and organization of actions there are reports no development of these practices. The professionals mention conducting planning and / or organizing mostly refer to the use of epidemiological data for the development of both. Regarding the implementation of occupational health actions, there is a predominance of implementing educational activities by the CEREST and Labour Municipal Health Centers. Other actions taken that were mentioned by network professionals are the financial investments and the multi clinical care. Inactivity of occupational health services and the ignorance about the enforcement actions were also references made by professionals. Conclusion: The paucity of the frontier worker's health care system work west of the Rio Grande do Sul becomes visible for existing professionals connected to this network that express the lack of actions designed specifically for people in the condition of workers. Or unaware of the actions of representatives of the health sector. This shows the weakness of workers' health network and the need for investments aimed at fortifying this network.