Direito à saúde e transformação social: limites e possibilidades na efetivação do direito à saúde do trabalhador

Abstract

This work will realize a historical, legal and legislative retrospective of developments and the emergence of the right to health worker of the last century to the present days. From a past of struggle, where not often had guaranteed minimum rights, came up the process of democratization of the country, which triggered the enactment of the 1988 Constitution, which guaranteed and universalized access to health care to all citizens, as well established as a fundamental value of Brazilian state, the respect for human dignity. Paradoxically the phenomenon of the constitutionalization of rights, labor relations have become more complex: the boundaries are broken, competition grew, the demands for achieving goals and results became daily, the pression for efficiency has become routine, individualism became a mark of the time where each one acts and thinks only of himself. As a result of this scenery emerged a number of new diseases which is particularly affecting the mental health of workers and has been related to the workplace. Thus, within this complex society, contingent and paradoxal, this study will examine the positioning of the doctrine and jurisprudence for these new cases of diseases that has been related to work, ascertaining how the right to health of the workers victimized by these diseases has been granted today. For this research was used as a theoretical Eligio Restas Fraternal Law Metatheory, literature and jurisprudence. Have been made yet, interviews with doctors and work judges to better support the reflections on the subject.