Work-related disorders among employees of a federal public university in southern Brazil/ Agravos relacionados ao trabalho em servidores de uma universidade federal do sul do Brasil

Background: Work-related disorders have considerable impact on the health of workers at a high cost for national budgets. Yet these conditions are globally underreported, less than 8% in Brazil. Shortcomings in health policies and records hinder attempts at establishing the health profile of civil servants in Brazil, who represent 8% of the local workforce. Objective: To establish the profile of federal civil servants with work-related disorders and relate it to diagnoses recorded in Civil Servant Work Accident Reports (CS/WAR) issued at a federal public university in southern Brazil. Methods: We analyzed 166 CS/WAR; 79.52% corresponded to women, average age 46.46 (SD=10.06), [greater than or equal to] 21 years in the job (34.9%), workers at the university hospital (64.46%) and medium- or technical level health care workers (45.78%). Mean duration of sick leave spells was 11.89 (SD=21.33) days. About 41.57% of CS/ WAR did not provide an ICD-10 code; 82.5% of the rest corresponded to work accidents, mainly lower extremity injury (31.5%) and 17.50% to occupational diseases, most commonly low back injury and infectious diseases (17.7% each). Conclusion: The results reinforce the need to improve the record system in public service facilities to enable strategies targeting the main health problems exhibited by this population of workers. Keywords | occupational accidents; occupational diseases; occupational accident registry; public sector; occupational health. Introducao: O regime estatutario, que representa 8% da forca de trabalho do Brasil, enfrenta problemas quanto a implementacao de politicas e registros de saude, impactando no conhecimento do perfil de saude dos servidores estatutarios. Objetivos: Identificar o perfil do servidor publico federal acometido por agravos ocupacionais e relaciona-lo com o diagnostico registrado na Comunicacao de Acidente de Trabalho do Servidor Publico (CAT /SP) de uma universidade federal do sul do Brasil. Metodo: Estudo transversal, retrospectivo, realizado com dados secundarios. Amostra censitaria com a totalidade de CAT/SP emitida pela universidade. Para analise estatistica, foi utilizado o programa Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) versao 22. Fez-se apenas analise bivariada por teste [chi-square] ou por analise de variancia (ANOVA), com nivel de significancia de 95%. Resultados: Foram analisadas 166 CAT/SP, 79,52% corresponderam a mulheres, com idade media de 46,46 (desvio padrao--DP=10,06) anos, 21 anos