Naming and institutionalization of the health of the worker: a disputed field

• Autor(a) principal: La-Rotta, Ehideé Isabel Gómez
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Pfeiffer , Claudia Regina Castellanos, Corrêa-Filho, Heleno Rodrigues, Corrêa, Carlos Roberto Silveira, Aoki, Francisco Hideo, Garcia, Clerison Stelvio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Trabalho, Educação e Saúde (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.tes.epsjv.fiocruz.br/index.php/tes/article/view/895
• topic: Saúde do trabalhador; Organização Internacional do Trabalho; Análise do discurso; Saúde coletiva; health of the worker; International Labour Organization; discourse analysis; collective health; salud del trabajador; Organización Internacional del Trabajo; análisis del discurso; salud pública

Based on the dispersal of meanings that constitutes the naming of the ‘Health of the Worker’ field, we sought to comprehend what is at stake in the constant changes in nomenclature in this field. These changes occur within a timeline, but they happen concomitantly. Its inaugural landmark was found in the stability of the name ‘occupational medicine,’ a name institutionalized by the International Labour Organization in the beginning of the second half of the 20th century. This first gesture of naming was followed by other gestures, established in tense and contradictory relationships of replacement, recovering and concurrence, such as: occupational health, health and safety at work, and, more recently, among these variations, we found the addition of the term ‘Health of the Worker.’ The second-to-last name is the most stable one, and it is used by international and entrepreneurial organizations.