Abstract

HUET MACHADO, Jorge Mesquita  and  DE SOUZA PORTO, Marcelo Firpo. Health promotion and intersectoriality: experience of occupational health surveillance in the construction of networks. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2003, vol.12, n.3, pp.121-130. ISSN 1679-4974.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742003000300002.

This article aims to systematize the experience in the area of occupational health in Brazil in connection with the discussions about health promotion and intersectoriality. It introduces the limits, possibilities and progress related to the concept of surveillance as the organizer of health actions, and the possibility of the construction of institutional networks starting from the definition of a subject - in this case, a relation between work and health with a focus in occupational health. This field is characterized by a vast array of institutions, government sectors and social actors involved in occupational health. The surveillance strategies developed in this field can be used to demonstrate the possibilities and difficulties in implementing health promotion practices through intersectorial and preventive actions. The path of the Brazilian collective health - and in particular the occupational health field - possesses historical and conceptual origins which are not exactly the same as health promotion. We consider a larger critical reflection necessary resulting in conceptual discussions and practices of health praxis in the context of the National Unified Health System (SUS). The field of worker's health can certainly contribute to this debate, mainly related to intersectorial and collective actions of health promotion which aim to transform the processes environment at work by the construction of social and institutional networks supportive of occupational health surveillance

Keywords : health promotion; intersectoriality; occupational health surveillance.

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