Acessibilidade / Reportar erro

Workers keep on becoming ill and dying: relationships, obstacles and challenges for the Worker's Health field

Abstract

This essay discusses the panorama of occupational accidents in Brazil using as basis the analysis of the latest news that came out in the press. The contents show the problems persistence over the last three-decade global capitalism's crisis. The author analyzes the relations of this panorama with the obstacles and challenges for propositions, actions and policies in the field of Worker's Health. He concludes that they occur due to the absence of inter-institutional action and trade unions' frailty in overcoming these impasses.

Keywords:
occupational accidents; worker's health; worker's health policy; capitalism's crisis; unions

Fundação Jorge Duprat Figueiredo de Segurança e Medicina do Trabalho - FUNDACENTRO Rua Capote Valente, 710 , 05409 002 São Paulo/SP Brasil, Tel: (55 11) 3066-6076 - São Paulo - SP - Brazil
E-mail: rbso@fundacentro.gov.br