Objective To identify access barriers to the General System for Occupational Risks (SGRL in Spanish) in a group of independent professionals (contracted with service provision contraction) in the public health sector in Bogotá. Methodology Qualitative research (narrative) through interviews of four independent professionals of the Secretaría Distrital de Salud (District Health Secretariat), 4 independent professionals of Tunjuelito Hospital and 3 experts in the field of occupational risks. The content analysis paradigm was used for information analysis.
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November 2015
Objective: Analyzing the 20th century Colombian legal framework from the point of view of labor law, social security and public health for identifying concepts regarding occupational health and professional risk and trying to establish convergence and differences between such foci and whether they fulfilled a complementary view.
Method: This work involved documentary research by means of thematic categorical analysis of the laws and statutes promulgated in 20th century Colombia, considering the main element or entity which should have regulated that related to professional risk or occupational health.
Results: The development of the 20th century Colombian legal framework regarding health at work was periodized, revealing the predominance of a view of social law focused on protecting dependent workers' work-related risks, as part of a tendency extending to the Colombian Sistema General de Riesgos Laborales.
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota)
October 2012
Objective: Optimizing the IDEAL foundation's vocational guidance program for its disabled beneficiaries to promote their satisfactory performance in the institutional workshop and in their daily lives, aimed at their future re insertion into the labor market.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study involving 20 handicapped people from the IDEAL foundation's vocational guidance program who had been assigned a workshop activity. This sample was characterized by using a battery of tests based on IDEAL's institutional format called Abilities and Skills.