Cadernetas de saúde e trabalho: diários de professores de universidade pública

• Autor(a) principal: Katia Reis de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Verônica Silva Fernandez, Liliane Reis Teixeira, Ariane Leites Larentis, André Luis de Oliveira Mendonça, Eliana Guimarães Felix, Maria Blandina Marques dos Santos, Andrea Maria dos Santos Rodrigues, Marisa Moura, Regina Helena Simões-Barbosa, Walcyr de Oliveira Barros, Mariza Gomes de Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/6667
• topic: Docentes; Saúde do Trabalhador; Pesquisa Qualitativa

The main objective of this article is to present and analyze the research instrument called “health and work notebooks”, focusing on the production of knowledge concerning professors’ work at a public university. The notebooks serve as a qualitative and participant research technique that is appropriate for the in-depth study of relations between health and work, viewing workplaces as privileged spaces for exercising effective action in the defense of health and the work experience as the principal material for analysis. The notebooks’ special quality as a research technique lies in worker’s role as protagonist in the research, as the diary’s author and co-participant in the study. Eight professors participated, all from the same institute in a federal university (IFES) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As for analysis of the empirical materials from the notebooks and consistent with the workers, the thematic analysis technique was adopted, producing four main discussion categories: time on the job and professors’ multiple work activities; precarization of working conditions at universities; faculty health at limits; and the notebooks viewed from the authors’ perspective. As for the results, the theme that stood out was work overload and time pressure to meet targets. Finally, the health and work notebooks proved to be a potential research tool for generating knowledge from a collective perspective.