Work and health conditions of sugar cane workers in Brazil

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP

Fernanda Ludmilla Rossi Rocha²  Maria Helena Palucci Marziale¹  Oi-saeng Hong¹ 

[1],University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing ,Brazil

关键词: Occupational health;    Rural workers;    Health promotion;    Saúde do trabalhador;    Trabalhadores rurais;    Promoção da saúde;    Salud laboral;    Trabajadores rurales;    Promoción de la salud;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0080-62342010000400017

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This is an exploratory research, with a quantitative approach, developed with the objective of analyzing the work and of life situations that can offer risks to the workers' health involved in the manual and automated cut of the sugar cane. The sample was composed by 39 sugar cane cutters and 16 operators of harvesters. The data collection occurred during the months of July and August of 2006, by the technique of direct observation of work situations and workers' homes and through interviews semi-structured. The interviews were recorded and later transcribed. Data were analyzed according to Social Ecological Theory. It was observed that the workers deal with multiple health risk situations, predominantly to the risks of occurrence of respiratory, musculoskeletal and psychological problems and work-related accidents due to the work activities. The interaction of individual, social and environmental factors can determine the workers' tendency to falling ill.

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