Atenção à saúde do trabalhador no Brasil: reflexões sobre os desafios e perspectivas

Abstract

The history of attention to workers' health in Brazil is included in this study which offers a critical analysis of the model to the present day, pointing out difficulties, assertive initiatives and strategic guidelines of tweaking of the shares in the National Health System (SUS) to provide better health care for the productive class in the country. In historical context, it is observed that the working class, over time, been receiving their health care, most often, just as a tactic in order to obtain increased performance, increased productivity, reduced absences from work and another series of financial interests with design and capitalist. Regarding the critical analysis it is observed that the health care worker has been provided as a partial and precarious without excluding, however, satisfactorily meet the needs and humane care of the labor force responsible for movement of a productive country in development needs. A dizzying glut in the SUS has been habitually and summed up the care to the sick and injured arising out of the labor market does not allocate the chaos. It is suggested invested in, always assertive, initiative for the prevention and extinction of accidents and illnesses still on the source, and the company during the workday. Also in the transformation of health care worker for the Department of Primary Care, and solidification the network of information and specific care.