The health category in the perspective of worker’s health: an essay about interaction, resistances and praxis

ABSTRACT

The main intention of this essay consists in critically analysing the perspective of health under the focus of worker’s health, recovering some of its constitutive theorical milestones. Seminal literature of the field, such as Latin American social Medicine and studies of the Italian workers, was used as a main base of this study. Besides, publications of Brazilian authors, which assess the theorical, political and methodological configuration of the field and seek to provide ‘self-identity’ to worker’s health, also supported this essay. We have come to three capital theses which were developed in dialogues with authors of the tradition of the historical materialism thinking.

KEYWORDS
Occupational health; Socialism; Occupational groups