Public policies in mental health and work: political and epistemological challenges

This article searches to understand, based on a genealogical approach, the possibilities for the emergence of the statements that demarcate the field of mental health and is (dis)articulation with workers’ health policies. As a way to point out the articulations and disarticulations between these policies and its programmatic instruments, we will present a brief analytical description of the national conferences that dealt with these themes. As a comprehensive hypothesis for the obstacles for the implementation of this articulation, we will present the political and epistemological challenges of the knowledge-truth legitimating ways in the fields of mental health and workers’ health.

Occupationa health; Mental health; Public policies