A legislação brasileira em saúde do trabalhador ST: análise do percurso histórico de sua institucionalização no âmbito do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS)

Abstract

The present text analyzes the historical course of legislation in Occupational Health (ST). ST is a branch of Brazilian Public Health that focuses on the relationship between health and work, seeking the improvement of living conditions and demanding the active participation of workers in the control of productive processes, aiming to cultivate healthy environments. The objective of this work is to make a retrospective of the Brazilian legislations that deal with ST. Among the progress we can mention in this field, one of them was the insertion and consideration of ST in the Brazilian citizen constitution of 1988. Health has become a social good, and has gained other contours, since it does not mean only absence of diseases, but implies several determinants, including work. The structuring of the National Network of Integral Attention to Worker's Health (RENAST) represented an important milestone; it is an attempt by the Ministry of Health to develop and implement ST actions in the Unified Health System (SUS) in an effective way. However, it is a network that still presents obstacles in its consolidation process in the public health network.

Keywords: Worker Health; Legislation; History of Workers' Health; Renast; Unified Health System (SUS).