A voz do servidor público da UFPA: um estudo sobre os sentidos da promoção da saúde no local de trabalho

Abstract

Introduction: The National Policy for Civil Servant’s Health and Work Security (Política Nacional de Atenção à Saúde e Segurança do Trabalho do Servidor Público Federal – PASS) is an established state policy, and is used as a legal tool for promoting and surveilling health among the public organs of the Federal Public Administration in the executive. PASS leads three principles: health assistance for civil servants; health and vigilance expertise; and health promotion. The latter recommends that changing actions must be developed in the workplace in order to reflect health gain for the servants. Methodology: Descriptive and exploratory study; qualitative research approach with a theoretical and methodological support based on the discursive practices by Spink (2010). The research consisted of a semi-structured interview, and aimed at investigating civil servants’ production of meanings on health promotion in the workplace. 17 (seventeen) federal civil servants from UFPA’s personnel took part in the interview. Result and discussion: The interviews were analyzed through two distinct processes: servants’ knowledge on “health” and “health promotion” – which was highlighted by terms/words – and the elaboration of four categories that appeared a posteriori about participants’ speech, considering: 1- the meanings about health promotion in the workplace; 2- health gain in the workplace due to health promotion; 3- health promotion, vigilance and intervention; and 4- information as a support for health gain. The categories were interpreted based on the narratives in light of the five main fields of health promotion proposed by the Ottawa charter, the guidelines that comprise the set of actions from PASS, and the theoretical background. The research result indicated the need of improving the theoretical discussions on health, risks, vulnerability, territory, intersectorality, critical autonomy, empowerment, and social participation as a way to face situations that prevent health gain. The interlocutors aim at gaining health from new social and environmental attitudes, social interactions, and health service reorientations. From the narratives, there was the need for an institutional planning that prioritizes programs and projects with the purpose of: improving UFPA’s campus infrastructure in Belém; promoting life quality in the workplace; and qualifying the servants about the policy for civil servants’ health and work security (PASS), which includes vigilance to environment and work process, and health promotion to servants. Conclusion: In the civil service, outside the healthcare sector, actions for health promotion aim at improving environment, organization, and work process in order to promote a health valuation culture through changing habits and behavioral attitudes individually and collectively, and to reduce morbimortality in the workplace. However, it can only happen through changes in social and environmental attitudes, social interactions, and health service reorientations. Furthermore, the institutional planning must have programs and projects to enhance life quality promotion in the workplace, and qualify the servants to develop their personal skills suitable for health gain.