Observatorio de las interacciones salud y trabajo, primera fase: entorno laboral y condiciones de trabajo de profesionales de la salud en Colombia, 2018

Abstract

The interaction between health and work has been documented in public health, with particular emphasis on the last decades where it is argued that labor deregulation, precariousness processes and precariousness are related to worse health outcomes in the population. Colombia is one of the countries with greater social inequality and with higher informal economy figures. Likewise, it is said that since the nineties the country has suffered a process of labor deregulation, which, accompanied by the reform of the health system and other political processes, has a significant impact on health professionals. Given the above, it is proposed as a general purpose: to analyze the health-work interactions in the Colombian population, and the objective of the first Phase is to understand the configuration of the working environment and the health and work conditions of Colombian health professionals. For this purpose, a mixed design with three components is proposed: heuristic that will focus on the documentary and contextual analysis that configures the work environment. A transversal Exploratory to determine the health and work conditions from the use of secondary data from multisectoral surveys and a qualitative one from a theoretical sampling in the selected cities to establish relationships of labor violence in the health sector. The results are expected to have a historical processual configuration of the working environment in the macro and lower dimensions, as well as a characterization of working conditions in the health sector, to discuss the existence or not of job precariousness and an analysis of possible expressions of violence associated to the work, elements that in turn will allow to issue recommendations of public policy.