Inquéritos ocupacionais do Brasil (2005 a 2015): uma abordagem descritiva

Abstract

The Occupational surveys are methods of collecting characteristic data of cross-sectional studies and are essential to the planning and development of public policies aimed at worker health. Studies show the need to establish consensus on the instruments for collection and their use in search quality and validity of occupational surveys. The aim of this study was to know the Occupational Surveys conducted in Brazil, in the period 2005 to 2015. To this end, we used as reference the PRISMA recommendation, recognized and traditional in the field of public health. This is a descriptive study in which the selection of occupational survey was carried out by search indexed studies in Medline, Lilacs and Scielo and scientific reports not indexed on the Internet, as well as theses and dissertations available in the thesis database and dissertations of Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination (Capes). The data analysis was the description of occupational surveys according to the regions of Brazil that were conducted with the techniques and tools used to do with the issues addressed by researchers, with the economic sectors studied (study population), and methodological criteria of interest. a distribution iniquity of occupational surveys studied both sectoral and regional, predominantly in the Southeast and in the health and education sectors was observed. We saw a trend of research in Occupational Health is interested in the disease. There were predominance of the use of questionnaires by enumerators in view of other collection strategies. There is a lack of methodological consensus on the composition and realization of occupational surveys. If the surveys are the foundation of public health, so efforts are needed to create methodological consensus and fostering research in sectors and vulnerable regions.