Os riscos ocupacionais que acometem os agentes comunitários de saúde do município de Delmiro Gouveia – AL: um estudo de caso

Abstract

This study sought to focus on the occupational risks that affect community health agents (CHA) in the city of Delmiro Gouveia / AL, in relation to the work reality, amid social contrasts. Aiming to survey the risk factors that contribute to the development of musculoskeletal symptoms related to work in CHA’s. The work was developed in front of the reality of the CHA of Delmiro Gouveia-AL This is a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study, involving 64 CHA who live in the municipality of Delmiro Gouveia and some in the rural area, corresponding to 100%. The sample consisted of 13 men and 51 women, selected at random and following the sample calculated by sampling, considering a margin of error of 2%. As inclusion criteria, individuals aged 18 to 30 years were considered 12.5%; 31 to 40 years 40.62% and 41 to 50 18.75% of both sexes. In this sense, awareness would be a way to break the inadequate activities of the CHA through informative lectures on repetitive movements and their injuries to the physical structure of the human being, in order to modify some attitudes and ways of working without damaging the joints.