The article tries to approach the policy-related debate about workers' health articulated with the professional debate about Social Services. Resulting from a constituent process with marked participation of the social and union movements, the workers' health acquired a new definition from the 1988's Federal Constitution, in which the Unique Health System was institutionalized and incorporated as an area of health jurisdiction. However, it is characterized by limits in which the challenge is to understand the capitalist dynamics and the neoliberal offensive.
Health policy; Workers' health; Social Services
