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LUNA-GARCIA, Jairo Ernesto. Ergonomics on the Build Colombian Health of Workers. Rev. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2014, vol.12, suppl.1, pp.77-82. ISSN 1692-7273.

The health of workers in Colombia traverses multiple challenges and difficulties, starting from the national, political and economic context, crossroads living social security system and the trends in the world of work. Faced with this situation, the ergonomics as a field of knowledge and action has multiple possibilities of contribution, which depend on not to see this disciplined reduced to a technical dimension, but encourage their contribution within a framework of action located and contextualized. Although it has emphasized the action of ergonomics in its contribution to the prevention of muscle-skeletal disorders, their contribution to the health of workers can be very important, in a setting of search of the labor and social welfare as a complement to the prevention of occupational risks.

Palavras-chave : health workers; ergonomics; prevention; muscle-skeletal disorders.

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