Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: IZABELLA SANT'ANNA SIQUEIRA

HEALTH WORKFORCE AND COVID-19: REGULATIONS AND WORKER PROTECTION

Work conditions; legislation; COVID-19; PAHO/WHO; worker's health.

The pandemic caused by the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has created a global public health emergency. As a central element was the role of health workers in facing the pandemic and fighting COVID-19, and protection for professionals who worked on the front lines to preserve their physical and mental health should be included in this context. The present research has the general objective of analyzing the regulations and protocols published in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic by the Government of the State of Mato Grosso/Secretariat of State of Health, comparing them with the recommendations and technical guidelines of OPAS/OMS/BRAZIL regarding the health of the health worker. The specific objectives are to identify the technical guidelines regarding the health of the health worker made available by OPAS/OMS/BRAZIL during the period of coping with the COVID-19 pandemic; identify the regulations and protocols related to the health of the health worker made available in publications by the Government of the State of Mato Grosso/Secretariat of State of Health, during the confrontation with the COVID-19 pandemic; to compare the norms and protocols adopted by the Government of the State of Mato Grosso/Secretary of State of Health with the technical guidelines of OPAS/OMS/BRAZIL, regarding the health of the health worker in the period of coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. This is documentary research with a qualitative approach to the regulations and protocols adopted for the health of health workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the years 2020 to 2021. 11 Technical Guidelines from OPAS/OMS/BRAZIL and 23 Regulations published by the State Executive, referring to the theme of workers' health, were selected for analysis. This research has the scope of strengthening the discussion about the protection of the health of the health worker in the State Department of Health of Mato Grosso.