Towards a strategic epidemiology of occupational safety and health

Abstract

A review was made on the most relevant documents on strategic epidemiology for occupational safety and health. The present article has as peculiarity to analyze qualitatively the scientific literature available in the databases Scielo, Redalyc and official Web pages, using as search words: epidemiology, industrial safety and occupational health. Relevant information was obtained related to the proposed objective, which is presented in 3 sections: the epidemiology of safety and health; concepts, measures and studies in epidemiology and present and future challenges.