Santana Vilma Sousa
Programa Integrado em Saúde Ambiental e do Trabalhador, Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
Rev Saude Publica. 2006 Aug;40 Spec no.:101-11. doi: 10.1590/s0034-89102006000400015.
To study trends of dissertation and thesis production in workers' health in Brazil.
Observation units were dissertations and theses developed by Brazilian researchers in national and foreign graduate programs. Theses and dissertations were identified in previously compiled works, LILACS and Capes database. Search keywords were workers' health, ergonomics, occupational hygiene, toxicology, and occupational health.
There were identified 1,025 documents. Of them, seven were published before 1970, 31 were published in 1970s, 121 in 1980s, 533 in 1990s, and 333 between 2000 and 2004. An exponential growth of studies during the study period was observed with a corresponding factor approximately equal to 4 in each decade. The majority of studies addresses major public health issues like musculoskeletal diseases, mental health, and occupational risks for health workers. It was noticeable the small number of studies on unemployment, occupational cancer, and primary sector and construction industry workers, known as a risk group for fatal work-related injuries.
The growth of public and collective health graduate programs was a major factor for increasing research on workers' health in Brazil in recent years. Despite increasing academic studies in this area of knowledge there are some persisting gaps persist that need to be narrowed in the near future.
研究巴西工人健康领域学位论文的产出趋势。
观察单位为巴西研究人员在国内外研究生项目中撰写的学位论文。通过先前汇编的著作、LILACS数据库和Capes数据库来识别论文。搜索关键词包括工人健康、人体工程学、职业卫生、毒理学和职业健康。
共识别出1025篇文献。其中，7篇发表于1970年之前，31篇发表于20世纪70年代，121篇发表于80年代，533篇发表于90年代，333篇发表于2000年至2004年之间。在研究期间观察到研究呈指数增长，每十年的相应系数约为4。大多数研究涉及重大公共卫生问题，如肌肉骨骼疾病、心理健康以及卫生工作者的职业风险。值得注意的是，关于失业、职业癌症以及初级部门和建筑行业工人（被视为与工作相关致命伤害的风险群体）的研究数量较少。
公共和集体卫生研究生项目的增长是近年来巴西工人健康研究增加的主要因素。尽管该知识领域的学术研究不断增加，但仍存在一些持续的差距，需要在不久的将来加以缩小。
