Eleição de prioridades para a vigilância do Câncer Relacionado ao Trabalho no município de Londrina-Paraná, Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Baldo, Renata Cristina Silva [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Romaniszen, Claudete Stábile Ribeiro, Ribeiro, Fátima Sueli Neto, Almeida, Ildeberto Muniz de [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.inca.gov.br/rbc/index.asp?conteudo=n_60/v03/sumario.asp&volume=60&numero=3; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/141359
• topic: Informations systems; Neoplasms; Occupational health; Epidemiological surveillance; Sistemas de información; Neoplasias; Salud laboral; Vigilancia epidemiológica; Sistemas de informação; Neoplasias; Saúde do trabalhador; Vigilância epidemiológica

Introduction: Occupational cancer has not been consolidated as an object of surveillance in Brazil, despite the eminent importance of work as a risk factor for cancer. Objective: Describe the election process of priority cancers for the implementation of occupational cancer notification in Londrina/Paraná. Method: Action research, a qualitative approach in framework of ecology of knowledge. In 2011, an occupation cancer surveillance training course for professionals of cancer-reference hospitals, health surveillance, Occupational Health Reference Center and social control, based on group dialogues, elected the priority types of cancers. Results: Considering the profile of local exposure and healthcare network diagnostic capacity corroborated by social control, cancer of head, neck and bladder were chosen as a priority for active search and notification. The training strategy was effective for the election of priority cancers to initiate the notification of work-related cancer in Londrina, since the participants within their institutions and skills have contributed to this activity. Conclusion: The introduction of new activities in the health professional routine is an obvious difficulty; therefore, the choice of two types of cancer (head and neck, and bladder) was feasible for early notifications. Action research as a method in this qualitative context was particularly appropriate considering its adaptation to the epidemiological context, which facilitated adherence to the theme and helped developing solutions to improve the practice.