SAÚDE DO TRABALHADOR DO SUS: precarização e o adoecimento ocupacional

Abstract

Work-related illness is a phenomenon that has been expressed in various ways throughout history. Over the past three decades, scholars of the world of work, observing its reorganization process, which occurred through the capital crisis dating from the 1970s, have been observing the influence of the new forms of relationship and management of labor, adopted by capital as way to recover their profit rates, on the new expressions of occupational illness, which currently combine physical and mental illnesses, the latter being the one that has been presented in greater proportion. Thus, this paper aims to analyze in which ways the societal and worldwide transformations, in the context of capital’s structural crisis, may affect the health-disease relationship of the workers of the Unified Health System (SUS), through historical recovery of the processes that resulted in the different productive models in the capitalist society, with a view to delineate the debate on the referred theme. We used as method the historical and dialectical materialism and as methodology, we used the researches: documented and bibliographic aiming to support the discussion, as well as get approximation with the existing legislation concerning the health protection of these professionals. Thus, it was found that there are several obstacles to its implementation of SUS, among which are the changes in management and work relations, influenced by the massive presence of capital in Brazilian public health, resulting from the context of the referred capitalist crisis.