Spatial and temporal distribution of workers' health problems: a regional analysis of the health situation.
Occupational diseases; Work accidents and Compulsory Notification.
Work-related accidents, occupational and work diseases manifest themselves from the causal link with the activities performed by workers, or through the working conditions to which they are constantly submitted. Thus, this work seeks to make a spatial and temporal analysis of Occupational Health problems in the 4th Health Region. It is a descriptive study of the cross-sectional type of spatial and temporal analysis of Occupational Health problems in the 4th Health Region , with data from the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) of the State Department of Public Health - SESAP/RN, from 2007 to 2019. The data will be secondary, collected from the SINAN database of the IV Regional Unit of Public Health – IV URSAP, from the State Secretariat of Public Health of Rio Grande do Norte – SESAP/RN. This study allows us to contribute to the services related to workers' health (Regional Reference Center for Occupational Health - CEREST and Regional Center for Workers' Health - NURSAT of the IV Regional Public Health Unit) in terms of promotion and prevention actions. and health protection of these workers. As well as in the implementation of health promotion and damage prevention programs, thus contributing to the Occupational Health Surveillance of the 4th Health Region.