Abstract

AGUILERA VELASCO, María de los Ángeles; PEREZ SOLIS, José de Jesús; POZOS RADILLO, Blanca Elizabeth  and  ACOSTA FERNANDEZ, Martín. Cultural meanings of the concept of health at work in professionals in training. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2012, vol.58, n.228, pp.224-236. ISSN 1989-7790.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0465-546X2012000300007.

Introduction: The concept of health in the workplace involves a number of meanings for occupational health professionals, who are used to guide, interact, discuss, define, categorize, and interpret their practices. Knowing these meanings is relevate because it allows to provide useful data for the design of educational programmes aimed at the prevention of accidents and occupational diseases. Objective: Explore the cultural meanings of the concept of health at work, before and after the training with duration of six months, in occupational health professionals. Methodology: Qualitative study with exploratory descriptive design, in Guadalajara, Mexico from February to July 2011. The data were collected with the technique of free lists and analyzed through the model of cultural domains. Results: The concept of occupational health, before the training was defined through the terms risk and security. After the training, health in the workplace was defined through the elements safety and prevention. Conclusions: The culture of prevention is achieved through a learning process that includes knowledge of occupational hazards and the existing regulations.

Keywords : Culture; occupational health; intervention studies.

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