Avaliação da capacidade de trabalho dos agentes comunitários de saúde do município de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

In recent years it has changed the labor relations, with increased overhead and job insecurity. Every day the worker must master more knowledge and technologies and without warranty or improvement perspective, often exposed to activities and unhealthy and stressful environments, causing illness and inability to work. This situation is no different in the health sector, the work process can also generate physical and mental suffering on who takes care of the health of the population. Because of this, actions must be taken to change this situation and prevent the functional aging. The objective of this study was to analyze the capacity for work and associated factors in the community health agents who work in primary health care. A cross-sectional study with a random sample of 212 community health workers was developed. The ability to work was assessed by capability index instrument for work (ICT), proposed by the occupational health institute of Finland. The study population was composed predominantly of women (91.5%), aged between 20 and 71 years, mean 44 years, married (55.2%), white (47.2%), with high school full (66%), net family income 2 to 3 minimum wages (32.1%), belonging to the class b2 (34.4%) and c1 (38.2%) and have good perception of general health (55, 7%) and oral health (50.9%). Have a good capacity to work (45.9%) and only 7.3% have low ICT, 52.8% self-evaluate how good the ability to work compared to the best of life and 18.9% say be at their best capacity for work. Workers refer have diagnosed 5 or more diseases (78.6%), but 41% of workers report that their disease does not cause impediment to perform their work and only 0.9% reported being unable to work. The results found actions should be taken to promote and preserve the health of these workers, seeking to understand what approaches and alienates them to have a good quality of life and better workability.