OBJECTIVE: To characterize the work, health and occupational risk conditions of recyclers from the rural area. METHODS: Cross-sectional study, with the participation of one hundred informal recyclers in five corregimientos (small administrative units) of Medellin in 2008. The source of information was primary: a structured survey on work, health and occupational risk conditions and also on perceived morbidity, which enabled to characterize the population’s risks through descriptive statistics and approach the relationships and associations of the risks with the morbidity […]