Saúde do trabalhador no SUS em Pernambuco: realidade ou utopia?

Abstract

This article discusses the National Policy on Occupational Health and Working, highlighting the current guidelines and priorities of the comprehensive health care worker model, focusing on the process of decentralization of actions at the regional level. Based on the perception of contradictions within the policy itself - the universality of health care worker and the actual realization of equality rights, the objective is to seize any obstacles that may be hindering the deployment and consolidation of this policy, regionally. This is a study of the literature review descriptive, based on publications of official documents such as laws, policies, regulations, reports, standards and technical manuals, as well as articles and chapters in books related to the theme from 2002 to 2012. The article developed an analysis of the determinants that lead to the emergence of this policy, its objectives, principles, guidelines and strategies, in order that this examination may contribute to the understanding of the difficulties and possibilities as to its real effectiveness. Considers being relevant this analysis, both by its novelty, as the need for insights and reflections to the pursuit of improving the quality of services provided to workers, and by unfolding the population. It can be seen throughout the analysis of the evolution of this policy, that health worker refers to a complex social process, bringing the brands of its time. This process is characterized by the production of knowledge and practices that must be realized in new forms of care and attention to the suffering of workers across the NHS Care Network. We conclude that there is no doubt as to the extreme importance of achieving a legal apparatus that ensures universal access to health worker and put the state as responsible for this; however, it is also necessary that this movement is not exhausted with this guarantee.