Basic questionnaire and methodological criteria for Surveys on Working Conditions, Employment, and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cad Saude Publica. 2016 Oct 10;32(9):e00210715. doi: 10.1590/0102-311X00210715.

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Benavides FG^1,2, Merino-Salazar P^1,3, Cornelio C⁴, Assunção AA⁵, Agudelo-Suárez AA⁶, Amable M⁷, Artazcoz L⁸, Astete J^9,10, Barraza D^11,12, Berhó F⁴, Milián LC¹³, Delclòs G¹⁴, Funcasta L¹⁵, Gerke J⁴, Gimeno D¹⁶, Itatí-Iñiguez MJ⁴, Lima EP⁵, Martínez-Iñigo D¹⁷, Medeiros AM⁵, Orta L¹⁸, Pinilla J¹⁹, Rodrigo F¹, Rojas M¹¹, Sabastizagal I¹⁰, Vallebuona C²⁰, Vermeylen G²¹, Villalobos GH²², Vives A²³.

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• ¹Centro de Investigación en Salud laboral, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, España.
• ²CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, España.
• ³Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, Quito, Ecuador.
• ⁴Superintendencia de Riesgos del Trabajo, Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ⁵Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil.
• ⁶Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
• ⁷Universidad de Avellaneda, Avellaneda, Argentina.
• ⁸Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, España.
• ⁹Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú.
• ¹⁰Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Perú.
• ¹¹Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.
• ¹²Universidad Técnica Nacional, San Carlos, Costa Rica.
• ¹³Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
• ¹⁴School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston, U.S.A.
• ¹⁵Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• ¹⁶School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Centar at Houston, San Antonio, U.S.A.
• ¹⁷Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, España.
• ¹⁸Escuela de Salud Pública, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• ¹⁹Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo, Madrid, España.
• ²⁰Ministerio de Salud de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
• ²¹European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, Ireland.
• ²²Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
• ²³Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.

Abstract

This article aimed to present a basic questionnaire and minimum methodological criteria for consideration in future Surveys on Working Conditions, Employment, and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean. A virtual and face-to-face consensus process was conducted with participation by a group of international experts who used the surveys available up until 2013 as the point of departure for defining the proposal. The final questionnaire included 77 questions grouped in six dimensions: socio-demographic characteristics of workers and companies; employment conditions; working conditions; health status; resources and preventive activities; and family characteristics. The minimum methodological criteria feature the interviewee's home as the place for the interview and aspects related to the quality of the fieldwork. These results can help improve the comparability of future surveys in Latin America and the Caribbean, which would in turn help improve information on workers' heath in the region.

PMID:

27759799

DOI:

10.1590/0102-311X00210715

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