Una mirada a la violencia laboral en el campo de los trabajadores de la salud en Colombia.

Abstract

Introduction: Violence no longer only exists in the spheres of war or conflict, but also germinates in the different scenarios of daily life, which generates situations of vulnerability and negative effects on people's health. Work has been identified as a generator of unfavorable health or disease conditions, with working conditions playing a fundamental role. With regard to health professionals, the current forms of hiring and work are increasingly unworthy and unstable, given by absence of salary payments, increase in working hours, work contracts that do not cover the needs of the employee and additionally they do not offer employment guarantees. Objective: Identify the experiences of workplace violence perceived by health professionals in Colombia in their work practice. Methodology: Qualitative - hermeneutical study with an ethnographic approach, reaching an interpretive-exploratory level. Conducted through semi-structured interviews with guiding questions. The universe was made up of health professionals who met the inclusion criteria. A sequential design was used through the snowball or chain method until data saturation was achieved. Results: Work experiences surrounded by constant exercises of structural and direct violence against the health workers interviewed are highlighted, framed by processes of job insecurity that configure work as a scenario prone to violence, unleashing physical and emotional consequences on the worker. Conclusions: Social transformations related to the world of work lead to forms of workplace violence, which specifically affect health professionals. Keywords: Workplace Violence; Work; Working Conditions; Public Health; Occupational Groups (source: MeSH-NCBI).