A INCORPORAÇÃO DE REQUISITOS ERGONÔMICOS NA INDÚSTRIA CALÇADISTA: UM MODELO EM PROL DA SAÚDE DOS DIABÉTICOS / THE INTEGRATION OF ERGONOMIC REQUIREMENTS AT SHOES INDUSTRY: A MODEL TO INCREASE THE HEALTHINESS OF PEOPLE WITH DIABETIC FEET

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This dissertation presents the results of a research that lead to a theoretical model proposing the integration of ergonomic requirements at shoes´ industry in order to increase the healthiness of people with diabetic feet. It´s expected that the model here presented benefits, by extension, also patients injured by other pathologies that causes neuropathycs or vascular peripheryc problems: patients with kidney problems, hypertensives, people affected by complications caused by tobacco addiction, etc. Formularies, questionnaires, and semi structured interviews supported the data collection that was done. Different groups were interviewed, all of them directed related with the diabetic feet problem. The data analysis presented evidences that most part of the shoes available in Rio de Janeiro might be able to cause repetitive traumas to neuropathyc feet of diabetic problem (lack of sensibility at the feet, because of the diabetes, happens when nervous stop conducting information related to sensitive stimulation in a healthy way), because of projetation/design (midsoles not well developed, thick internal sews or too hard outsoles). And, once diabetics are predisposed to have deficient peripheryc circulation any wound might become more then just a simple problem, might become a real danger. The study here presented reassured its interdisciplinaryti once extended its exploratory field to other areas with the purpose of merging related information regarding diabetic feet. The following problem guided this research: Diabetics are damaged by most part of the shoes produced for the internal market, because they don´t take in consideration ergonomic, cognitive or physical issues regarding diabetes during production.

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mutilation prevention ergonomia de calcados diabetic feet prevencao de mutilacoes pes diabeticos ergonomic shoes

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