Saúde dos trabalhadores de uma unidade de alimentação e nutrição de um hospital universitário no sul do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

In the hospital network team of professionals engaged in the Food and Nutrition (HFS) is responsible for the recovery and / or maintaining the health of people through a balanced distribution of healthy food. With nutrition, demographic and epidemiological transitions experienced in recent years, the pathologies belonging to the groups of Diseases Chronic Noncommunicable (NCDs) have become a major public health problem because of its severity and its global expansion, and one of the great to influence their development are risk factors, which can be divided into two groups: modifiable (tobacco, alcohol, exercise, intake of fat) and non-modifiable (sex, age, skin color). This study aimed to evaluate the modifiable risk factors for NCDs and the Nutritional Status of employees of Food and Nutrition (HFS) of the University Hospital San Francisco de Paula (HUSFP). It is a cross-sectional study, conducted in the UAN HUSFP the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul. 47 females were analyzed and of these, 43.9% met overweight or obese, 65.8% consumed few fibers, 68.2% were physically inactive and 75.6% had a waist circumference above 80 cm. In relation to nutritionists, 50.0% were physically inactive. These data depict the existence of numerous risk factors for NCDs, being necessary preventions and changes in lifestyle. Moreover, beneficial results were found in the analysis. There are few employees and nutritionists that as the applied instruments, refer use of tobacco and alcohol. Another result found was the little fat intake in the diets. Finally, most dieticians had diet rich in fiber and 83.3% of these had abdominal circumference of up to 80 cm. Adopt measures to prevent the risk factors for NCDs qualifies people's lives and organizes the health system of the country. Know the magnitude, trend and risk factors of these diseases provides planning, implementation and evaluation of control for deployments and interventions.