Trabalho docente e saúde ocupacional na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Abstract

This study dealt with the illness of the teacher teaching the upper face to the changing world of work caused by the restructuring of the public university. The aim was to analyze the main impacts of the restructuring of the public university at work and health of university professors from the Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU. To do so, traced the profile epidemiology of illnesses of teachers in higher education, Federal University of Uberlândia, based on the description of the cases registered in the Setor de Perícia em Saúde da Diretoria de Qualidade de Vida e Saúde - DIRQS the period 2008 to 2012. A survey of the problematic consequences of the politics reconfiguration of higher education in the teacher labor everyday. When considering where to play its role well the teacher must have good health and work, it became important to analyze which conditions affect the performance of their work. This procedure allowed the knowledge of the main health problems that affected the teaching category in the study period using for this purpose, qualitative methodological approach of predominantly descriptive nature of documentary research as a technique for gathering and analyzing data, without, however, neglect the contributions coming from the quantitative data that was presented. The identification of health problems that interfere with the dynamics of work has become of paramount importance, since it provided an understanding of the factors related to the malaise of university teaching teacher. The results of this research allow us to state that the reconfiguration of higher education from the 1990s exacerbated by the intensification of precarious working conditions of teachers, leaving them susceptible to disease processes.