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0204/2015 - Dying For The Job: Police Work Exposure And Health
Morrendo Pelo Trabalho: Trabalho Policial E Saúde

Author:

• Andrea Maria Silveira - Silveira, Andrea Maria - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Medicina Preventiva e Social - <silveira@medicina.ufmg.br>

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Abstract:

Brazil had between 2012 and 2014 approximately 704 231 public workers in social defense. Despite the grandiosity of these numbers the Brazilian scientific productions on the relationship between police activity and health is discreet, which increases interest in the book edited by John M. Violanti. The book has 18 contributors among biostatisticians, epidemiologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, cardiologists and specialist on intensive care. The main purpose of this book is to focus on the less known dangers in policing. The book is divided into 11 chapters that address risk factors in police work, health disparities among police officers, the cardiovascular risk, the cancer mortality among police officers, the shift work and health consequences in policing, stressors and associated health effects for women police officers, police suicide, post-traumatic stress disorders symptoms, psychobiology and coexisting disorders in police officers, resilience in policing, treatment of trauma in police officers. Although the book depicts a different scenario from the Brazilian reality and not bring a strong discussion on the role of organizational characteristics on the illness process, their information bring important insights for to the organization of police officers health care.

Keywords:

occupational health police occupational risks

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