Acidentes de trabalho: violência urbana e morte em Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Cadernos de Saúde Pública

Paulo Antonio Barros Oliveira²  Jussara Maria Mendes¹ 

[1],Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Faculdade de Medicina Departamento de Medicina SocialPorto Alegre RS ,Brasil

关键词: Occupational Accidents;    Worker's Health;    Occupational Mortality;    Violence;    Acidentes do Trabalho;    Trabalho;    Saúde do Trabalhador;    Mortalidade Ocupacional;    Violência;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-311X1997000600007

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This article focuses on the magnitude of work-related deaths in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Death certificates were used to investigate 159 cases, or 18% of the 877 deaths from external causes in 1992. Some 31 cases were identified. The principal cause of death among these workers was homicide, with 58% of cases (15 from fire arms and 3 from knives), followed by traffic accidents, with 29% (5 motor vehicle collisions and 4 pedestrians run down by motor vehicles). Of these 31 deaths, 17 were workers from the formal labor market, of whom 11 did not fit into the regular reporting procedures for work-related accidents. The other 14 deaths were of workers from the informal labor market (7), individuals involved in illicit activities (6), and unknown (1), in which cases reporting as work-related accidents was also inappropriate. These data suggest negligence by the public sector in dealing with this issue and the fact that official statistics fail to reflect the reality of daily working conditions. The authors conclude that health surveillance requires other data collection mechanisms besides those used by the Social Welfare System, so as to include all actual risks related to work situations.

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