Nursing, Work and Mental Illness
Volume 1 - Issue 2
Jose Dionisio de Paula Junior*
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- Postdoctoral Researcher in Occupational Safety, Brazil
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Jose Dionisio de Paula Junior, Postdoctoral Researcher in Occupational Safety, Federal University of Vicosa (UFV),
Minas Gerais State, Brazil
Received: February 05, 2018; Published: February 13, 2018
DOI: 10.32474/RRHOAJ.2018.01.000106
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Abstract
The worker’s health is a public health whose object of study
and intervention the relationship between work and health,
which establishes a control of hazards to worker health. Thus, the
term occupational health the body of knowledge from different
disciplines such as Occupational Health Nursing, Public Health,
Medicine, Occupational Medicine, Sociology, Social Epidemiology,
Engineering, Psychology, among many others, which together with
the scientific knowledge on occupational health establishes a new
way of understanding the relationship between health and work.
The work is a transformative activity of reality that provides the
conditions for survival and fulfillment of the worker. Through
actions, the product of their labor, the human being realizes his life
as a project, recognizes its ontological condition, embodied and
expressed their dependence and power over nature, producing
the material, cultural and institutional resources that constitute its
environment [1].
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