Contribuição das políticas públicas de saúde do trabalhador para prevenção da silicose nos trabalhadores informais da mineração do município de Pedra Lavrada.

Abstract

The silicosis is a major public health problem because it affects a large number of workers in Brazil. This fact gives more responsibilities to the managers of health to adopt actions to solve this problem. The intent of this work is to know how the public health policies have been contributing to the prevention of silicosis in workers in the city of Pedra Lavrada. In order to achieve this objective, it was used methodology of interview application and questionnaire with the workers of informal activities in mining and with the secretariat of health of the city, having approached silicosis, the public politics in health of the worker, environment health and prevention. The results found indicate that the workers are unaided in relation to work’s security, the lack of their involvement in the planning of the public policies of worker’s health in the city, the worker’s and the secretariat of health’s ignorance in relation to the environment health e their repercussion on the humans and the inexistence of simple measures that are universally adopted as reference in the silicosis’ prevention.