Saúde vocal e condições de trabalho na percepção dos docentes de educação básica

Abstract

The article discusses the vocal health and the well-being of teachers, relating them with teachers’ perceptions about their working conditions. From general reflections on teachers’ health risks identified and problematized in researches that focused on school working conditions analysis, we developed quantitative data analysis based on the Teaching Work in Basic Education in Brazil (TDEBB) research. It was created three groups of teachers according to their voice problems experience: the E group, without voice problems; the R group, of risk for voice problems and the D group, diagnosed with voice problems. These three groups were analyzed at four levels: characteristics of teachers, professional context, environmental context and global context. Other qualitative analyses were supported by the reports of teachers in focus groups. Risk and health protection factors related to working conditions are appointed in order to promote a healthier work environment, which may ultimately contribute to improving the quality of education and teaching profession valorization.