Introduction:

The technological revolution and changes in the world of work have led an ever increasing number of workers to carry out part of their activities in contexts that go beyond their traditional work domains, thus drawing attention to the possible effects of this dynamic on health. Several studies have indicated a context of precariousness and recurrent illness among teachers, but the way in which work affects their everyday lives has not received significant attention as a potentially pathogenic factor, even though taking work home is something common among them and it is known that this reflects in some way on the complex relationship between their work and everyday life.

Objectives:

To investigate the repercussion of teachers\' work on their everyday lives and the implication of this dynamic on their health-disease process.

Methods:

Qualitative research of an exploratory nature based initially on a systematic literature review and undertaken principally by means of individual semi-structured interviews. Complementarily, a formula was applied for the socio-demographic characterization of the participants, as well as a protocol of their daily activities and analogical scales. The public interviewed consisted of 29 basic education teachers, active in four separate public schools, as well as the four principals of those same schools. Two of these schools (one municipal and one state) followed the regular course and the other two (both state schools) adopted the integral system. The data were analyzed by means of thematic codification with the support of MAXQDA software, version 12. Theoretical framework In terms of the Worker\'s Health perspective, this study was mainly based on the psychodynamics of work, but also used the assumptions of the activity clinic, ergonomics of activity and health anthropology.

Results:

The participants\' ages ranged from 29 to 61 years and their experience in teaching from 1 to 37 years, the public being predominantly female. The literature review revealed a set of 155 studies on the work and health of teachers published over the last 20 years, an increase in these studies having occurred over the last 10 years and configuration of the following profile 1) Typical disorders and health problems; 2) Working conditions and health; 3) Quality of Life; 4) Work, career and fundamentals of teaching activity. The codification of the interviews, in turn, led us to five thematic categories 1) Typologies of everyday life; 2) Pleasure and suffering at work; 3) Strategies for the reconciliation of life, work and health; 4) Perception, conception and experiences of health and illness reported; 5) Multiform invasion of life by work. As far as they were concerned, the daily activity protocols and analogue scales reflected the same content as emerged from the interviews. The narratives revealed several sources of suffering in the life and work of teachers, as well as numerous cases/experiences of presenteeism, as well as the use of strategies to reconcile such dimensions with the maintenance of health. As a main result, the vast majority of respondents demonstrated that they felt that their lives were being harmfully invaded by their work and that this invasion did not occur in a single, linear way. Basically, it manifested itself through a state of continuous attachment to the work (or with some suffering felt during its realization), from which the individuals could not detach themselves, no matter how much they tried. This generated a state of suffering and prolonged lack of availability for oneself and for the other, that damaged one\'s family and social coexistence, as well as one\'s own recovery for the work.

Conclusion:

The attacks on their health experienced by teachers at work are reflected in their personal lives and combine with aggressive factors arising within the social context. Within this latter context, the teacher\'s discredit grows and this reflects in school life as a loss of authority and even rejection, producing repeated frustrations that contribute to the installation of a scenario of social suffering associated with the invasion of daily life by work. Given the suffering of such social amplitude and pathogenic type that this multiform invasion produces, this phenomenon may be considered one of the elements that helps to explain the picture of recurrent illness which these professionals present