Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JÉFITHA KALINY DOS SANTOS SILVA

Worker's health; Mental health; Work conditions; COVID-19.

The new forms of management, relationships and working conditions established within the framework of (re)
configurations of the world of work, added to the regressive reforms operated in the Politics of
Health has had repercussions on the living conditions and ways of living of the population, placing
severe impacts on the health of male and female workers. This scenario worsened with
the advent of the covid-19 pandemic, which is imprinting new rhythms and forms of
work, accentuating mental illness, insofar as this disease caused by
SARS-CoV-2 virus, has affected every aspect of human life, has disrupted the systems of
attention to health around the world and aggravated the economic, political and social crisis, causing
an unprecedented health crisis of planetary dimensions. Indeed, the environment of
pandemic required that responses be taken quickly due to the potential
of contagion and the overwhelming spread of the virus. Thus, health professionals who work
on the front lines of COVID-19 are among the groups most vulnerable to the consequences
emotional and psychological consequences of the pandemic. In view of this, the on-screen study aims to analyze how the
relationships and working conditions have an impact on the mental health of workers and
workers) of the UPAS of Natal-RN in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, through a
research with a mixed methodological focus, in the perspective of articulating qualitative techniques and
quantitative to apprehend the object of the research in its totality, particularity and
singularity. For this, different research procedures were used: observation
non-participant, interviews, socio-occupational questionnaires. In this way, it is intended
produce, along the investigative course, subsidies for the strengthening of the actions of the
CEREST of the municipality of Natal-RN with the Urgency and Emergency Network, as well as for
implementation of the Workers' and Workers' Health Policy in that municipality.