EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INVISIBILITY OF OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS AMONG HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN THE BRAZILIAN PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM: UNDERREPORTING, PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT, AND STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SURVEILLANCE
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Workers’ health, Health surveillance, Occupational accidents, Underreporting, Brazilian Health SystemAbstract
Occupational accidents involving health professionals represent an important public health problem within the Brazilian Unified Health System. This chapter aimed to critically discuss the epidemiological invisibility of occupational accidents among health professionals, emphasizing underreporting processes, labor precarization and their implications for Workers’ Health Surveillance. This is a theoretical-reflective study based on national and international scientific literature related to occupational health, healthcare work organization and epidemiological surveillance. The findings indicate that underreporting is a multifactorial phenomenon associated with the naturalization of occupational risks, institutional fragility, bureaucratic reporting flows, fear of administrative punishment and insufficiency of labor protection policies. Furthermore, epidemiological invisibility compromises the production of consistent indicators, hinders public policy planning and perpetuates unsafe working conditions in healthcare services. It is concluded that strengthening Workers’ Health Surveillance requires expanding occupational safety culture, valuing health workers and strengthening continuing education and epidemiological surveillance strategies.
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