This theoretical paper for debate presents three crucial questions about the workers’ health subject: (a) the absence of a National Policy that gives a conceptual fundament, guides for implementation, strategies and plans for action and evaluation of its effectivity; (b) fragmentation and dispersion of the scientific production of the area, defaulting the important contribution that the academic sector could offer for fundament the action of health policy makers, social movements, executives and professionals of the area; (c) weakness and low capacity of social movements and workers representative groups, in the actual crises resulted of the productive restructuring, to formulate qualified demands for respond with adequate instruments the contemporary problems of the workers situation in Brazil. The method used to construct this article was a critical revision of the official documents and of the scientific production of the area named in Brazil as "workers’ health movement". They founded the analyses and the emergent questions. The theoretical basis comes from the literature about productive restructuring in Brazil, mainly that who treats about its worse effects in the health of working class population; and classic texts that articulate the workers' health knowledge field.
Workers’ health policy; Health and work; Productive restructuring and health