Socio-cultural aspects that influence in occupational accidents in health care workers

Abstract

Work accidents are those pathological conditions resulting from continued action of a cause that has its origin in the work or in the environment in which it develops. Industrialization and economic model that has prevailed in the world brought about improvements in the production of goods and services that allowed people easier access to them but also brought social consequences such as poverty, unemployment, job insecurity, that has impacted very negatively on the health of workers by increasing the number of accidents and occupational diseases. This panorama which is submerged health care workers where technological development achieved and the conditions of the general environment have modified their work environment and, therefore, its adaptation where hazards or risk factors in the work have transformed causing health grievances will be developed in this essay.