This thesis investigates the illness of teachers working in elementary education from Public
Education Network in Belém - RME in Pará State, from the educational reforms implemented
in the period 2005-2012. The overall objective consisted in analyzing the causes of illness of
teachers in Public Education Network of Belém RME, noting the following specific
objectives: to analyze educational policies of RME; identify the effects of educational policies
and their relation to the illness of the teacher; analyzing the working conditions of teachers;
identify the occurrence of intensification and casualization in teaching and possible relations
with the illness. The survey was conducted in two stages: the first stage was the realization of
literature to better understand the topic. To understand the concept of Work, World of Work,
Work, Work and Education Market studies were performed in authors such as Marx (2006),
Alves (2010); Antunes (2006), Frigotto (2003), who bring a deep understanding of the subject
matter, why are references for analysis in historical-dialectical perspective. On Educational
Policy and Teacher Labor, has been taken based on studies of Oliveira (2003); Maués (2006);
Shiroma et al. (2007) and others. The authors used to discuss health and illness in general and
school were: Bravo (2010, 2011), Codo (2006, 2010), Was (1999), Benevides-Pereira (2006),
Minayo (1998) and others. The second stage of construction of this thesis was to field
research that served to supplement and clarify questions and doubts about the object of study,
structured and semi-structured interview questionnaire being used and the third stage is
configured in the definition of categories, from research field. This phase has been
characterized by decomposing texts into units, reclassifying them for reunification and was
performed in three steps: a preliminary analysis, which consisted of the organization of the
material, the exploratory analysis, consisting of coding and classification, and finally the
treatment of the results and interpretation, which focused on tabulation and application of
descriptive and analytical techniques of data. The survey results indicated that the causes of
illnesses in RME are related to: a) working conditions in its broad sense, indicating the
existence of processes of intensification and casualization of teaching; b) policies for
continuing education requirements with steep grades rating in the Index of Basic Education
Development - IDEB; c) the existence of teacher malaise, corroborating the wear and low job
satisfaction.
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