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Educação em saúde com trabalhadores: relato de uma experiência

2008; Volume: 11; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

1809-8363

Amanda Assis Gonçalves, Danila Batista, Luciana Abreu Miranda, Renata Odete de Azevedo Souza, Suellen Müller Santos, Rosângela Maria Greco,

Occupational Health and Burnout

Workers generally need to have, in their place of work, some moments in which they can talk and know other ones’ opinions about their helth-disease process. Enterprises that invest in this moment have a gain in their workers’ motivation, involvement and responsability, what directly reflects in their productiveness. Based on this, and from a request to us to gauge the blood pressure of workers from a car selling and maintenance enterprise, from March to September of the year 2006, we began a health educational work in this enterprise. This work is a report of the experience with these workers, with the purpose to contribute to the prevention of diseases and stimulate the promotion of workers’ health. Therefore, through a work group with five students from the seventh grade of the graduation course of the Faculdade de Enfermagem of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (FACEN/UFJF) with the supervision of a professor who is specialist in worker health subject, we managed to develop a significative experience that we believe to have contributed in an effective way in the development of a distinct attention to the worker, emphasizing and stimulating the practice of a healthy and productive work life.