Occupational accidents and occupational disease: study of the hospital workers' knowledge about health risks of their work

Abstract

This study searches to gather the knowledge of the hospitalr health workers in relationship their own health in the development of their activities. The study was accomplished in a general hospital, of medium load, with medicine service occupational functioning. The way gone through is the presentation of the subject in study and the theoretical foundation as a way of basing the analysis of the datas, gathered through the questionnaire, to apprehend the worker's knowledge about the relationship work-health-disease. The result evidenced the workers' generic knowledge concerning the prevention of accidents and occupational diseases.