Navegando por Palavras-chave "Occupational health surveillance"

Agora exibindo 1 - 2 de 2
  • Imagem de Miniatura
    Item
    Acesso aberto (Open Access)
    Health surveillance and agribusiness: the impact of pesticides on health and the environment. Danger ahead!
    (ABRASCO - Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva, 2014-12-01) Nasrala Neto, Elias; Lacaz, Francisco Antonio de Castro [UNIFESP]; Pignati, Wanderlei Antonio; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP); Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso Departamento de Saúde Coletiva
    Pesticides are abundantly used in agribusiness and can be damaging to health and the environment. Society in general and agricultural, environmental and health institutions in particular have a legal and statutory duty to supervise their use. To identify and analyze these actions, interviews were conducted with managers of the municipal offices and union leaders representing the workers and farmers. Managers and rural producers were of the opinion that pesticides are essential to productivity and do not generate any impact on health and the environment. No policies or institutional relations monitoring pesticide use were identified or being considered. Rural workers' unions do not take any political initiatives to benefit the health of the workers themselves, their families and that of society in general. The conclusion draws is the pressing need to develop a model for sustainable agriculture, healthy and free of pesticides and that organized society and responsible institutions must undertake actions that meet the needs of the people who working on the farms or consume the agricultural products harvested there, especially controlling risks and consequences that can and must be avoided.
  • Imagem de Miniatura
    Item
    Acesso aberto (Open Access)
    Obstacles to return to work: Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the questionnaire to the Brazilian context
    (Abrasco, 2018) Milani, Daniela; Souza, Ana Claudia de; Hirayama, Marcio Sussumu [UNIFESP]; Alexandre, Neusa Maria Costa
    The few existing questionnaires addressing return to work in Brazil are medical and/or psychological and do not examine work environment-related issues. The Obstacles to Return-to-Work Questionnaire (ORTWQ) is multidimensional, including biopsychosocial and environmental factors, and has proven useful in the return to work issue. The scope of this study is to describe the translation and cultural adaptation process of ORTWQ for use in the Brazilian context. It also discusses aspects related to work and the importance for health professionals to identify obstacles to return to work for occupational health vigilance. For the cultural adaptation process, there were five steps: translation, synthesis, back translation, evaluation by an expert committee and the pre-test process. Before the pre-test phase, the Content Validity Index was checked and was considered adequate when it was >= 0.8. The expression "increase working hours" was withdrawn from the questionnaire, since the partial return-to-work regime is rare in Brazil. The sample for the pre-test involved 40 individuals. The average time for completing ORTWQ was 14 minutes and the Brazilian version of ORTWQ proved to be adequate. Further studies should assess psychometric qualities of the questionnaire.