ALENCAR, Aline de Sousa.; NAVARRO, Rômulo Feitosa.; DANTAS, Deborah Rose Galvão.
Résumé:
In order to determine the prevalence of deaths from silicosis in workers in stone quarries in Pedra Lavrada -
PB in the last five years, this research was the Secretariat of Health of that city. Data were collected through
analysis of the entries of deaths in this establishment. The quantitative data analysis revealed three patients,
all males, aged between 50-80 years who had silicosis as a morbid state that produced the direct cause of
death, all working in quarries, although at the time of death had all is away from work due to the impairment
of health. The data showed that a small number of deaths in the period studied, but it is known that the
diagnosis of silicosis is permeated with difficulties due to lack of information of health professionals and their
underreporting, which believe that the data presented below are from our reality.
