Trabalho e saúde mental dos profissionais do SUS: desafios e oportunidades

Abstract

Work plays a structuring role in the living conditions of an individual and society, decisively influencing the health-disease process of the subjects. In this sense, the This study sought to carry out a narrative review on the theme of workers' health. under the mental health focus of health professionals from the Unified Health System (SUS). In order to identify the theoretical framework of the study in the national literature, a search in the SCiELO database and the Virtual Health Library. search strategies: Worker's health AND mental health AND health professionals and worker's health AND mental health. At the end of the survey, twenty were selected and eight studies, where they were systematized into analysis categories according to content relevant emerging in each of the studies. Of these, seven were about strategies for coping, five on absence from work for reasons of mental health, nineteen on elements of the organization of work and two on the organization of the health services of the worker. Given these results, it was possible to recognize the effects of the elements of organization of work for suffering and mental illness in the work of professionals health, in addition to identifying the need of these professionals to adopt strategies for coping to deal with work contexts that are a source of mental suffering. The studies addressed in the category absence from work for mental health reasons add up important initiative in the direction of pointing to the illness profile of these professionals. On the other hand, the studies organized in the category organization of worker's health services, to at the same time that they constitute an important material that still present the challenges. found to carry out worker health actions from the perspective of mental health, it also reveals itself as an opportunity to strengthen mental health actions in the worker.