Saúde do Trabalhador e Serviço Social: o trabalho de assistentes sociais na Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Olivar, Monica Simone Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15868
• topic: Worker s Health; State and Public Health; Social Service; Saúde do trabalhador; Estado e Saúde Pública; Serviço Social; Saúde do trabalhador; Saúde pública; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

The purpose of this thesis is to examine, within the framework of the Marxist tradition, the debate surrounding Brazil s Workers Health Policy and the practice of social workers in the country, in the perspective of the political ethical project of the profession. To achieve this objective, a modest re-reading of the classics on the Brazilian Health Organic Law (known as Sanitary Reform), and the Workers Health Legislation and its further developments was made, vis-à-vis the recent implementation of neoliberal reforms, in Brazil and worldwide, and their consequent impacts on Brazilian Social Service. By adopting the historical-dialectic-materialism as research methodology, we try to reveal the construction of the field Worker s Health as well as analyze the social workers practice within the National Worker's Health Network (RENAST) of the Metropolitan Region of State of Rio de Janeiro, in an effort to implement the guidelines of the Worker s Health Protection. Thus, in order to explore the semi-structured interviews held with social workers in the field, a study of the CERESTs documents (legislation, State CEREST Action Plan and Regional CERESTs, Social Service Project) was used. Based on the bibliographical review, we discuss the complex historical framework of social relations of labor, State intervention, the construction of the field of the Workers Health and its pragmatic aspect the policy focusing its implementation in the singular reality from Rio de Janeiro. The analysis represents an effort to articulate the singular reality with the universal domain, without disregarding the inherent limits, but seeing them as challenges to be faced. The thesis was written in the heat of the debates around the political economic crisis of the State of Rio de Janeiro and has no other intention than to contribute to the current debate on Workers Health. The analysis can be also useful to articulate with another debate, equally fruitful: the relationship between Social Service and the health of workers, establishing as a parameter the ethical-political project of the profession. The Health of the Worker within the scope of Brazilian Unified Health System requires new capabilities from social workers, and this may constitute a space for enhancement of the ethical-political project. As a result, the study reveals that CERESTs, largely implemented since 2004, have not yet materialized. There are no integrated actions, neither from the side of related actions (DRT, INSS, Environment, among others) nor within the SUS network. Social control is also incipient. In spite of the various limits found, it is possible to say that there are some advances. It is imperative, however, that social movements are more involved in building a counter-hegemony favorable to the implementation of this policy.