The children and adolescents victims of work accidents at work and assisted at a district Health unit in Ribeirão Preto (SP). / "As crianças e os adolescentes acidentados no trabalho e atendidos em uma unidade distrital de saúde em Ribeirão Preto (SP)"

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

The aim of this retrospective and descriptive study was to identify the characteristics of accidents occurred with children and adolescents while working, in the period from June 1, 2001 till May 31, 2002. After observing the necessary ethical and methodological procedures, a survey and review was realized in the health files of children and adolescents assisted at the Occupational Health Service of the a public health service in the Central health district of Ribeirão Preto (SP), Brazil. Data collection was realized by means of a protocol that contained information about the working child and adolescent, about the accident and the issuing of the Communication of Work Accident (CWA). The information obtained by consulting those accident victims files was codified, according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (1993). During the period, 1,589 children and adolescent victims of accidents were assisted in general. In 56 (3.6%) files, the health workers who assisted these accident victims had given some description about the accident as being a Work Accident (WA) or a copy of the CWA had been included. Among the 56 files of children and adolescents accidented at work, 12.4% were bakery assistants, doormen, workshop assistants, among others. The WA happened with several substances and objects, which corresponded to 39.3% of the cases and, among the main causing agents, the knife was responsible for the largest number of occurrences. The accidents/runovers corresponded to 19.6% of the causes of fractures, dislocations and traumatisms, among others, which happened on the way to work. The most frequent medical diagnosis was fist and hand wounds (33.9%); there were also multiple diagnoses (8.9%), related to cases in which several parts of the body were affected. The most affected areas of the body were the superior limbs (51.8%). In 62.5% of the cases, the CWA was not observed in the accident victim s file. It was disclosed that children and adolescents’ work actually exists in Ribeirão Preto (SP), possibly due to poverty, because children and adolescents’ work mainly indicates the existence of a family income complement. More effective actions may be directed in order to eradicate children and adolescents’ work, including new research on WA and through them base measures to meet this goal or at least to diminish its negative effects.

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trabalho de criança trabalho infantil child labor nursing acidente de trabalho trabalho de adolescentes occupational accidents adolescent work infantile work enfermagem

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