[The professional wearing down or syndrome of welfare labor stress ("burnout") among health professionals in the city of Cordoba].

With the intention of quantifying what occurs, between the members of the equipment of health in the public and deprived scope of the city of Cordoba, the present investigation is carried out. Comparative cross-sectional design observacional on stratified sample of doctors and fisioterapeutas. The data collection was made by means of survey of car-reports of "Maslach Burnout Inventory" (MBI). 479 professionals were studied, 22.3% (107) they were Fisioterapeutas and Kinesiólogos and 77.7% (372) Doctors of different specialties. It is possible to be concluded that in the public scope, the values of emotional fatigue are in the published ranks, despersonalizaci6n and lack of personal accomplishment is smaller. Between the hospitals they do not differ significantly. In the General Hospital of the Provincial scope, the Burnout is similar to the one of other countries and superior to the one of both local. In the private scope the levels of emotional fatigue are significantly greater than in the public, in the Service of Emergency the values exceed the published ranks. Between Pre-Residentes, the stress levels are moderate and they do not seem to vary; the Burnout would be below the awaited levels. Stress average of fisioterapeutas and kinesiólogos is in moderate levels and is smaller to the one of doctors of the public scope of the city of Cordova, but comparable to the one of the clinical residents and. The specialists Legal Medicine of the Fiscal Public Ministry, present/display the highest percentage of syndrome of complete Burnout.