Abstract
Introduction:
the Worker’s Health (WH) field is based on a conception that presupposes an environmental, social and historical view of health-disease process beyond the workplace limits.
Objective:
to present different facets of the WH intervention from a historical recovery of the field construction, highlighting its founders’ views.
Methods:
interviews with historical field actors considered key informants. For the interviews content analysis, the following categories were defined: the intervention foundation and its feasibility for services structuring; intervention as knowledge production and regulation; the intervention spreading: training and information.
Results:
from these actors’ perspective, intervention is intrinsic to the field, and is present in scientific and technical production, as well as in services; strongly allied to the workers’ movement as subjects, both in actions and in the shared production of knowledge.
Conclusion:
in the WH field, intervention has the Workers’ Health Surveillance as its maximum expression. It is also shown in form of action-research, intervention-research and broader research community, which affirms workers’ protagonism and the subjectivity growing importance for the transformation processes.
Keywords:
occupational health; intervention; action-research