Popular education and social control in worker health: challenges based on experience

The Occupational Health (OH) refers to a field of knowledge that comprises the relationships between work and the health-disease process in order to articulate a body of interdisciplinary practices. In the context of the possibilities to conduct the OH with the amplitude that requires this concept, different initiatives of Popular Education in Health are articulated with demands of Social Control in Health, allowing new approaches to configure the active and critical training of health workers and social movements the mosaic of policies OH. This article seeks to reflect on these possibilities from the Extension Project “Parallel Lives”. The systematization of the experience concluded that dialogue strategies, political-social organization and exchange of life experiences present themselves as significant scenario in sharing the worker’s culture between themselves, providing opportunities for collective growth and better quality of life.

Occupational Health; Popular Education; Social Control