Ce travail présente un dispositif de surveillance épidémiologique novateur en santé environnementale fondée sur des évènements de santé déclarée, au plus près de la nature des plaintes exprimées par les populations : des symptômes et une dégradation de la qualité de vie. Ce dispositif est proposé à partir d’une réflexion conceptuelle reposant sur une revue de la littérature sur les théories psychométriques et le modèle transactionnel du stress et d’une application de terrain portant sur la population (n=1 495) riveraine du site industriel chimique de Salindres (Gard). Ces travaux permettent de vérifier les principales propriétés métriques d’indicateurs de santé déclarée mesurés, par les instruments MOS SF-36 et SCL-90-R, dans le cadre d’une population exposée à une pollution environnementale. Ils vérifient également l’adéquation et la sensibilité de ces indicateurs pour étudier les facteurs de risque environnementaux qui se réfèrent aux représentations cognitives des risques, comme la perception sensoriels des stimuli émis par les sites industriels. Ils montrent, en outre, que la disponibilité de références nationales portant sur la mesure de ces indicateurs leur confère un critère de qualité essentiel d’interprétation des résultats. Ces travaux apportent enfin des éléments d’appréciation de l’acceptabilité de la mesure des indicateurs de santé déclarée dans la population, des recommandations sur la communication pour la mise en œuvre d’un tel dispositif et des pistes de réflexion pour la gestion. / This work presents an innovative epidemiological surveillance system in environmental health based on self-reported health indicators, closer to the complaints of the local population leaving around a source of environmental pollution: symptoms and loss of the quality of life. This approach is built up from a conceptual framework based on the psychometric theory and the transactional model of stress. A field application of this approach was carried out the population neighboring (n=1 495) the chemical industrial area of Salindres, Gard. This study verifies that self-reported health indicators measured with MOS SF-36 and SCL-90-R can be used to study populations exposed to multifactorial environmental risks. This study confirms that these indicators are relevant and sensitive when applied to environmental risk factors referring to the cognitive representations of risks, such as the sensorial perception of stimuli emitted by the industries. This work shows, besides, that the availability of national references for these indicators confers interpretability to these indicators, an essential quality criterion. This work discusses qualitatively the acceptability of measuring indicators of self-reported health in the population, proposes recommendations on communication for the setting of that kind of approach, and opens up avenues on management orientations.

Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-04T12:36:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010 / Este estudo analisa a situação do quadro de trabalhadores do Ministério da Saúde e entidades vinculadas Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA), Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS) e Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) _ noperíodo de 2000 a 2008, segundo algumas variáveis selecionadas, com destaque para o tipo de vínculo desses trabalhadores. Além da análise da evolução quantitativa da força de trabalho federal em saúde, procurou-se relacionar a situação atual com os condicionantes históricos e as políticas recentes voltadas para o funcionalismo público federal. O institucionalismo histórico é a principal corrente utilizada como referencial teórico do estudo, por reconhecer a importância do Estado como ator político e valorizar os condicionantes históricos, o papel das instituições e dos atores na conformação das políticas. As estratégias metodológicas utilizadas foram: revisão bibliográfica, análise documental e análise de dados primários e secundários sobre o quadro de trabalhadores federais em geral e na saúde. Os resultados sugerem que, no período recente, após o início do governo Lula em 2003, houve uma inflexão na tendência de redução do funcionalismo público federal, a qual vinha sendo observada desde os anos 1990, relacionada ao aumento dos concursos públicos para reposição de quadros. Tal movimento não atinge de forma homogênea todas as áreas,sendo que a saúde apresentou um aumento no quadro de servidores ativos inferior à média total do Executivo Federal. Foram observadas diferenças na situação do quadro de trabalhadores do Ministério da Saúde e entidades vinculadas incluídas no estudo. O nível central do Ministério foi pouco beneficiado com a realização de concursos e o funcionamento de áreas estratégicas do nível central do Ministério permanece dependente de profissionais inseridos como consultores ou por contratos temporários. As agências reguladoras da saúde, criadas no início dos anos 2000, foram beneficiadas com concursos para a contratação de servidores de carreiras específicas, principalmente a partir de 2005, mas ao final do período ainda apresentavam uma quantidade expressiva de trabalhadores com outros tipos de vínculos. Já na FIOCRUZ, observou-se um aumento do número de servidores no período, porém um aumento ainda maior na incorporação de trabalhadores terceirizados. Por fim, discutem-se os desafios de conformação de uma força de trabalho federal na saúde suficiente, estável e adequada para dar conta das atribuições estratégicas do Ministério da Saúde e entidades vinculadas, visto que, no Brasil, a esfera federal tem um papel fundamental para a consolidação do Sistema Único de Saúde, mesmo em um contexto de descentralização político-administrativa. / This study investigates the staffing of the Brazilian Ministry of Health and associated entities – namely, the National Public Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA, National Agency for Supplementary Health Care (ANS) and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) – during the period from 2000 to 2008, in terms of a selected set of variables,with particular focus on the types of employment relation. As well as an analysis of the quantitative growth of the federal work force in health, the study involved relating the current situation to historical factors and recent policies aimed at the federal civil service. Historical institutionalism is the main theoretical branch referenced in the study as it recognizes the importance of the State as a political actor and values the historical conditioning factors and the role of the institutions and actors in policy making. The methodological techniques used were a bibliographical review, documental analysis and analysis of primary and secondary data on federal staffing in general and in health care. The results suggest that since the dawn of the Lula government in 2003, the trend of a shrinking federal civil service observed since the 1990s has been reversed as a result of increased civil service admissions to replenish staffing levels. However, this movement has not affected all the different areas in a uniform manner, and the increase in active public health workers is lower than the average increase of the Federal Executive. Differences were found in the staffing situations of the Ministry of Health and of the associated entities included in this study. The central office of the Ministry benefitted only slightly from the civil service admission examinations conducted and the operations of strategic areas of the Ministry central office remain dependent on professionals hired as consultants or by temporary contracts. The health regulatory agencies, created in the early 2000s, have benefitted from civil service admission examinations for the admission of specific professions, especially since 2005, but at the end of the period there was still a considerable proportion of workers employed under alternative types of engagement. Meanwhile at FIOCRUZ, although an increase was observed in the number of civil servants in the period, there was an even greater increase in the number of workers employed under other types of contracts. Finally, a discussion is developed on the challenges involved in forming a federal work force in health which is large enough, stable and adequate to address the strategic 10 responsibilities of the Ministry of Health and associated entities, bearing in mind that in Brazil the federal governmental sphere plays a fundamental role in consolidating the Unified Health System (SUS), even against the backdrop of political-administrative decentralization.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Identifying spatial and temporal patterns of disease occurrence by mapping the residential locations of affected people can provide information that informs response by public health practitioners and improves understanding in epidemiological research. A common method of locating patients at the individual level is geocoding residential addresses stored in electronic medical records (EMRs) using address matching procedures in a geographic information system (GIS). While the process of geocoding is becoming more common in public health studies, few researchers take the time to examine the effects of using different address databases on match rate and positional accuracy of the geocoded results. This research examined and compared accuracy and match rate resulting from four commonly-used geocoding databases applied to sample of 59,341 subjects residing in and around Marion County/ Indianapolis, IN. The results are intended to inform researchers on the benefits and downsides to their selection of a database to geocode patient addresses in EMRs.