Trastornos musculoesqueléticos en el personal de una EPS en la ciudad de Cali, periodo 2013-2015. Trastornos musculoesqueléticos en el personal de una EPS en la ciudad de Cali, periodo 2013-2015.

Abstract

It is a quantitative and qualitative descriptive study with a retrospective approach, the aim is to identify biomechanical factors that can cause musculoskeletal disorders in the administrative staff of a promoter of health city Cali in the 2013-2015 period. OTI statistics report that occupational diseases cause a number of absenteeism six times greater than occupational accidents, therefore 2.02 million are caused by diseases of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (SMD), estimating a loss of 4% of the gross domestic product (GDP). For the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the United States, the manufacturing sector is the most affected by the TME with 41/1000 employees. In Colombia, the report carried out by the Ministry of Social Protection affirms that carpal tunnel syndrome was the first cause of professional morbidity in 27% in 2001 with a tendency to increase. According to FASECOLDA, more than 40,000 occupational diseases, according to the second National survey of Occupational Safety and Health Conditions in the risk system for 2012, 88% of these pathologies were the (TME) prevailing tunnel syndrome. carpus. Countries such as Bahia, Brazil and Morelia, Mexico in 2010 conducted a study about the factors associated with disorders (MSDS) skeletal muscle, where it showed that biomechanical factors were the cause of absenteeism, with an indicator of morbidity Alto. Took a sample of 68 workers by means of a formula, with a population of 270 workers applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, using instruments of Association by specific objective (method RULA, based on truancy, statistical method Univariate and bivariate). This work identified in its results that feminine gender was the population most affected between 20 to 28 years of age because of disorders (MSDS) skeletal muscle by biomechanical factors and the masculine gender of 40 to 45 years of age.