A New Look at Worker Health: Reflections for the construction of an intervention proposal

Abstract

The present study aims to seek preventive measures that minimize the impacts on workers' health. The theoretical dialogues are structured from the concepts that make up the field called Occupational Health. Under this approach, it has an interdisciplinary character and is epistemologically based on a social constructivist conception. Theoretical reflections on the subject go beyond the foundations that influence and shape the theoretical plan and advance towards the construction of an intervention proposal for the work relationships that cause illness. As a result, it can be concluded that workers, exposed to occupational hazards in their work environment, must constitute a concern for Brazilian public health, and must be a constant object of public policies and effective measures that ensure the fundamental right to health of the worker.