Occupational injuries among domestic workers from the gender perspective, Brazil, 2016 to 2020

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Janaina Oliveira de
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Milena Maria Cordeiro de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3659
• topic: Acidentes de trabalho; Epidemiologia; Saúde do trabalhador; Accidentes de trabajo; Epidemiología; Salud del trabajador; Occupational accidents; Epidemiology; Occupational health

Domestic workers are at risk of occupational injuries (OI) due to the activities performed and the social vulnerability related to the occupation. Thus, the aim of this study is to describe gender differences in the epidemiological profile of OI among domestic workers in Brazil. Tio that end, a descriptive casuistry study using notifications of OI with domestic workers from the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), Brazil, was carried out from 2016 to 2020. Of the 13,957 OI registered for this occupational group, those with non-white women and men, with more than eight years of formal education and registered worker were more frequent, although most of these cases did not result in a Work Accident Communication. Most OI occurred with women aged 40 to 59 years and younger men, aged 18 to 39 years. The occupation housekeeping represented almost the totality of OI records among men, whereas among women, the most frequent occupations were housekeepers and day laborers. Diagnoses of falls, impact, or contact with sharp objects and transport accidents were the most common. Although the proportion of OI records between both sexes is similar, men show some indicators of greater vulnerability, and the greater formality in their registries indicates the invisibility of female and informal domestic workers.