Work as a promoter of health

Studies on the relation between health and work tend to highlight the negative and pathological aspects, as if work produces only sickness and alienation. On the contrary, our proposal is to stress how work can also produce health. Based on Canguillem's concept of health, and from the contribut...

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Published in:Ciência & saude coletiva 2014-12, Vol.19 (12), p.4751
Main Authors: da Silva, Claudia Osorio, Ramminger, Tatiana
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Subjects:
Health Promotion
Healthy Worker Effect
Humans
Occupational Health
Work - psychology
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Summary:Studies on the relation between health and work tend to highlight the negative and pathological aspects, as if work produces only sickness and alienation. On the contrary, our proposal is to stress how work can also produce health. Based on Canguillem's concept of health, and from the contributions of the so-called "work clinics", we intend to analyze the purpose of work as a promoter of health. Canguilhem affirms that health is not adaptive, as such it does not involve adapting well to the world, but to the creation of tenets of life. For their part, the work clinics provide tools to approximate us to the know-how-to-do produced by workers in their daily work, namely not only how workers adapt to work, but how they create and recreate it permanently Thus, we can think work as a promoter of health where there is room for collective and personal creation, as well as recognition of workers in their activity.
ISSN:1678-4561
DOI:10.1590/1413-812320141912.15212013