Abstract

DELFINO, Lívia Guimarães  and  MORAES, Thiago Drumond. Ilness’ perception for truck drivers absented by social security system. Est. Inter. Psicol. [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.2, pp. 113-137. ISSN 2236-6407.

This article aims to comprehend the configuration of the absence from work for long distance truck drivers in pension benefit and indication of vocational rehabilitation by the National Social Security Institute (INSS) seeking their work’s perception and factors related to the disease process. In qualitative research aproach, thirteen males truck drivers, between 30 and 58 years, were individually interviewed in a semi-structured interview. In the reports were identified categories like work characteristics and conditions, professional expectations and gains and postponement of care. This data revealed perception that the absence from work is related to current organization of road transport loads; and that the sick leave have occurring later with worsening morbidities, evidencing the influence coping with the illness in the process. The research pointed the need for constant improvement of the shares of Social Security mainly with regard to the specificities of certain professional groups in the INSS’ rehabilitation service.

Keywords : social welfare; occupational health; retirement; working conditions; transportation.

        · abstract in Portuguese | Spanish     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )