O trabalho e saúde do(a) trabalhador(a) e seu processo de envelhecimento ativo e saudável em tempos de pandemia Covid-19 em Manaus, Amazonas

Abstract

There are still few studies that bring a prospective view that take into account profound social transformations about aging in society beyond the numerical expansion, particularly regarding biological changes supported by genetics, which would lead to changes in demographic indicators and life expectancy. , and extension of the lifespan limit, or the biological clock. This presupposes the development of strategies that bring life to the threshold as close as possible to the maximum limit of the human species (MINAYO, 2012). The challenge is, in addition to advances in genetics and biotechnology, to implement public policies for work and health that allow human beings to achieve this, independently, free from diseases. The study aims to reflect on the determinants of the social problem of aging in worker, their living, working and health conditions and their implications for the experience of an active and healthy old age in times of the Covid-19 pandemic in Manaus/AM. of the data, considering that it is a critical analysis and the connections of the problem with the totality; with a reality that interacts dynamically, excluding dichotomies. The significant sample consisted of 16 working people aged between 30 and 70 years per federative entity, considered aging and old-age people of both sexes from the Federal Institute of Education of Amazonas (IFAM) and Health Units of the State and Municipal Health Department. from Manaus, Amazonas, totaling 48 samples for application of forms. Subsequently, among these, 08 workers from IFAM were selected, representing federal education and 08 from SES/AM and SEMSA/Manaus, representing the health of the Amazon of these people to respond to the interview, telling their life and work stories and the care itself for a active and healthy aging before and in the Covid-19 pandemic. The result of the study revealed that the distance between the legally guaranteed right and the real working and health conditions of workers with federal education (IFAM) and state and municipal health (SES and SEMSA), considering reports of precarious working conditions, illness , extension of working hours and life time at work by servers, having deepened in these more than two years of pandemic. In Amazonas, the performance of CERESTs proved to be precarious, focused on the inspection of the private health network, excluding public facilities; A similar stance has remained in these two years of the Covid-19 pandemic in Amazonas. Prevention for active and citizen aging was mentioned by a minority of respondents, who report making periodic visits and examinations, practicing some type of physical activity, healthy eating, family leisure and religiosity. work prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and, even during the pandemic, the collapse of the Brazilian health system in all federative entities, the category of these workers from IFAM, SES and SEMSA has managed to generate empirical processes, which, despite it does not constitute praxis, it has contributed to the valorization of their lives, they resignify themselves, reinvent themselves, daily, reviewing habits and essential care for aging and old age as a citizen from the tripod work, health and living conditions.