Condições de saúde autorreferidas por docentes e técnico-administrativos de uma universidade pública

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: There is little information available about the health conditions of Brazilian workers, which makes it difficult to establish priorities for public policies, planning and implementing health actions. OBJECTIVE: To characterize the health conditions self-reported by teachers and technical-administrative staff at a public university in the southeastern region. METHODS: Cross-sectional study, descriptiveanalytical approach, carried out at a public university in the southeastern region, from july to august 2012. For continuous variables, Student's t-test or Mann-Whitney was used; for categorical variables, Pearson's chi-square test, with 95,0% confidence intervals; adopting 5% as significance. The sociodemographic variables, health and working conditions of the civil servants were collected from the secondary database of the Institution's Office of Community Affairs, created from a semi-structured questionnaire. RESULTS: 815 civil servants (347 teachers and 468 technical-administrative) participated in the study, aged between 20 and 65 years. It is observed that teachers (79.3%) had a higher prevalence of diseases, however, technical-administrative staff had a higher frequency of medical certificate, hospitalization and accidents at work. CONCLUSION: This study indicated that the category of civil servant, sex, age group and job dissatisfaction were associated with chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), infectious/parasitic diseases, medical certificate, hospitalization, work accidents and adherence to vaccination against tetanus and yellow fever.