Condições de trabalho e suas influências na saúde dos policiais militares.

Abstract

This research seeks to provide a broader knowledge and encourage debate between academics and health professionals and the military policeman itself with regard to the evils arising from the PM profession performance. Therefore, we had as main objective to understand the working conditions and their influence on the health of military policemen to we identify the perception of police professionals regarding the health situation in which they find themselves. Thus, this study was an exploratory-descriptive, with a qualitative approach. The survey was conducted with military policemen working in the 3rd Company of the Sixth Military Police Battalion in the city of Cajazeiras, Paraíba. To perform the data collection, we used semi-structured interview based on a preliminary script consisted of open questions. The data were grouped into categories or analysis of cores which led us to realize that the military police activity has a strong influence on the health of these professionals, which according with the study it was found the development of some diseases related to their work activities such as Arterial hypertension, gastroduodenal ulcer, obesity, cancer, psoriasis, stress, and others.