Vigilância em saúde do trabalhador no Brasil: conceito e desafios

Abstract

The Vigilance in Worker Health works in the relations of the work process with health and is a fundamental means to promote the health of workers and the prevention of accidents and work-related diseases; Being essential to reflect on concepts and policies aimed at the health of the worker. This article has a qualitative approach of descriptive bibliographic type, so this review has the objective of searching in the literature what it is and what the challenges of surveillance in occupational health. Many challenges need to be addressed, such as few surveillance actions, weak intrinsetorial articulation, non-intersectoral pacts. ESF/PSF teams need to be sensitized and continuously trained to develop and take the necessary practices.