Health handmade's fishermen and occurrence of skin wounds: new directions for nursing

Objective: To synthesize the scientific literature on the health of fishermen that brings reflections on skin wounds. Method: integrative review with data collection from April to May 2013. Five articles in the databases LILACS, Medline and ScieLO were selected. Results: five articles (100%) show fishing as a precarious labor activity, noting the occurrence of accidents and injuries at work. Regarding the essence of content and knowledge production, issues related to the shortage of health policies for the fisherman, precarious labor laws and lack of information on epidemiological and health surveillance stood out. Conclusion: it is recognized the need of returning attention of nurse researchers for this population of workers, since previous studies point to the urgency of measures aimed at the promotion, prevention and recovery of those fishermen's health