Enfermeiro do trabalho: contribuições para saúde de agentes de combate às endemias / Occupational nurse: contributions to health of agents to combat endemic diseases
Within the scope of Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), the demand for improving working conditions and the quality of life of healthworkers is growing. Agentes de Combate à Endemias (ACE) represent a relatively recent category of healthworkerswho are poorly informed about the socioeconomic profile and health problems they are exposed to. The objective of this study was to evaluate the risk factors to which the ACE are exposed and to describe the actions of the occupational nurse on the occupational health of these workers. It is an integrative review of literature with articles published between 2006 and 2016 in the Virtual Health Library. Chemical, physical and biologicalrisks were identified in the performance of ACE and situations in which nurses can act in minimization or elimination of such risks.