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O campo Saúde do Trabalhador: resgatando conhecimentos e práticas sobre as relações trabalho-saúde The Workers’ Health field: reclaiming knowledge and practices in the interface between work and health

Francisco Antonio de Castro Lacaz

Abstract
Escola Paulista de
Medicina, Universidade
Federal de São Paulo,
São Paulo, Brasil.

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Correspondência
F. A. C. Lacaz
Escola Paulista de Medicina,
Universidade Federal de São Paulo.
Rua Afonso Celso 718, apto. 12, São Paulo, SP
04119-060, Brasil. [e-mail] [e-mail]

This article discusses the underlying theoretical and operational premises in the fields of workers’ health and occupational health, highlighting their respective frameworks and epistemological differences, based on Foucaultian archeology. The theme is particularly relevant, due to: the apparently limited attention to interdisciplinary research approaches in workers’ health; various setbacks in public health measures at the social policy level; related weaknesses in the
Brazilian trade union movement; and the conceptual misinterpretations drafted into the final report of the 3rd National Workers’ Health Conference in November, 2005, convened by the Ministries of Social Security, Health, and Labor. The event resulted from the Workers’ Health Conferences held in various States and Municipalities, mobilizing some 100,000 activists throughout
Brazil and electing the delegates to the 3rd National Conference.
Occupational Health; Occupational Health Policy; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

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Bases teórico-metodológicas do campo
Saúde do Trabalhador
A abordagem das relações trabalho-saúde tem experimentado retrocesso que pode ser observado quanto à sua apreensão, em termos disciplinares, adotada nas pesquisas 1,2; à involução que caracteriza a proposta programática 3 a qual privilegia o assistencialismo nas ações da rede de saúde do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) 4;
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