[Cumulative trauma disorders: work or professional disease?].
This study aimed at reviewing the Brazilian legislation applied to occupational health. It refers to the diseases embodied in the Repetition Strain Injury (RSI) and Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTD) regarded as work or professional diseases. This analysis allowed to perform the historical evolution of legislation concerning the issue, noting that the state of the art of regulation on RSI-CTD is anchored in specific regulation present in the Normative Instruction 98/2003, that establishes the diagnostic criteria and classification of RSI-CTD. It was concluded that according to the existing legislation in Brazil, the pathologies related to RSI-CTD are considered as work diseases and their legal effects are similar to the work-related accidents.
de Carvalho
Marcus Vitor Diniz
MV
Grupo de Pesquisa em Medicina do Trabalho e Saúde Ocupacional da Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE), Brasil. carvalho_marcus@yahoo.com.br
Cavalcanti
Francisco Ivo Dantas
FI
Soriano
Evelyne Pessoa
EP
de Miranda
Hênio Ferreira
HF
D001938:Brazil; D012090:Cumulative Trauma Disorders; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*