Produção de adoecimento de professores: algumas considerações

Abstract

Nowadays, a phenomenon that has been worrying different segments, inside and outside of school, is the falling ill of teachers, in some cases called Burnout Syndrome by the literature. In this paper we have studied aspects of the phenomenon, from some points of view regarding medicine literature and we also consulted official data about the situation of teachers from Santa Catarina's public education, a Brazilian state. The results of these researches provided worrying information: literature reveals existent research on this topic demonstrating increase on teachers‟ mental and psychosomatic illnesses. Likewise, official data points out that teachers from Santa Catarina's public education are the majority on sick leave between twenty state bodies, situation that makes the problem visible. As concluding considerations we see that the literature concerned with this subject shows some reasons for teachers‟ health problems, warning that this is a public health issue. On the other hand, data about teachers as public servants proposes to face the problem because teachers‟ health problems are growing, as shown by statistics.