Vigilância em Saúde do Trabalhador e articulações intersetoriais no enfrentamento do trabalho infantil em Diadema, SP, Brasil / Surveillance in Occupational Health and intersectorial articulations in the fight against child labour in Diadema, SP, Brazil
This study aims to show an intervention developed within the scope of the Worker's Health Reference Centre in Diadema. We analysed municipal health network reports of occupational accidents with adolescents from 2009 to 2019 to assess intersectoral strategies and the implemented surveillance and prevention actions. Notifiable DiseasesInformation System, technical reports from surveillance, and records of our team's meetings and events of were analyzed. Of the 5,179 reported serious workaccidents, 7.5% affected young people aged between 14 and 17 years, 72% of which were boys and 28%, girls. Intersectoral discussion and a matrix health support favoured a broader understanding of the phenomenon. We found difficulties of healthcare providers in identifying workaccidents and parents' denial about adverse working conditions. We expect to overcome the invisibility and underreporting of child labour and contribute to the application of principles of precaution and prevention to build protective paradigms for children and their working families to combat child labour