Health workers: prevalence of overweight in obesity in a legal amazonian municipality

Introduction: Obesity has been discussed in different lines of research in recent years, as it is a chronic non-communicable disease characterized by excess body fat resulting from the prolonged imbalance between food consumption and energy expenditure, producing several deleterious health effects. In this sense, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity can be defined as the accumulation of fat in the body, affected by aspects (biological, historical, ecological, socioeconomic, psychosocial, cultural, and political), resulting even serious health risks over time).Objective: to analyze the level of overweight and obesity in employees of the Municipal Health Department (MHD) in the municipality of Gurupi-TO. Methodology: The study included 122 employees of the administrative headquarters of MHD and 13 Basic Health Units (BHU), with positions of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, nursing technicians, dentists, oral health technicians, administrative, coordination. Results: The present study found that the highest percentage in waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) was higher in both sexes. Conclusion: It is concluded that the workers of MHD of Gurupi (TO), both sexes, presented the prevalence of overweight and indicators that predispose to chronic non-communicable diseases.