Sistema Regional de Información
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This essay seeks to contribute to the construction of a participatory and dialogical mode of health surveillance for the workplace, notably for the federal public service. A reflection is made in it based on a review of the literature and a focus on the legislation and on the policy in force in the country. The authors find that the historical achievements made in the scope of labor social movements favor the production of new relations between the state and society, favoring the emergence of participatory spaces in public institutions. In addition, it highlights the capital need for organizing occupational health commissions per workplace as an elementary way to implement the health surveillance policy in the work environments. Finally, under the aegis of the critical education field, it presents a few precepts of the theoretical contribution made by Freire's pedagogy to serve as a base for the creation of spaces for discussion at the workplace. The authors defend the idea that dialog and participation are the educational foundations of a democratic perspective of occupational health surveillance.

The article addresses the phenomenon of stress and its relationship with the worker and his system. The methodology used was exploratory research with a qualitative approach. A review of the literature was conducted for the years ranging from 2001 to 2012, searching for articles published in Portuguese and English in the Virtual Health Library, SciELO, and MEDLINE databases. These descriptors were used: occupational health, occupational stress, psychological stress, work, intervention and worker health surveillance. After reading the abstracts of 362 articles that were found, 18 were selected and submitted to content analysis. The need to identify, remedy or mitigate the factors that cause this phenomenon was emphasized in order for health promotion activities to be proposed within the workplace aiming to turn it into a source of pleasure for the worker.

The purpose of this article is to rescue aspects related to the construction of health education as a scientific field. It presents the main changes that have occurred since the early authoritarian and ethnocentric views concerning its target groups to the current proposals for popular education to value popular knowledge, inspired by the thought of Paulo Freire. It argues that the anthropologist's stance in the field, seeking to value the knowledge of the Other as just as legitimate as the academic one, can help health professionals practice dialogic health education for the groups to which it is intended.

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An attempt was made to get to know the views professors have on the experience of teaching in health courses at a federal university located in northern Brazil. Using a qualitative approach, six professors working at the university's health courses were interviewed, and their data were subjected to content analysis. Most professors were female, and the role was valued as it represents a stable employment status, a source ofincome, and a social function. In the teaching activity, most focus on developing the students' technical and scientific skills, expressing the need for ongoing training and insufficient institutional support. Personal relationships among these professors and students and with other professors and technical administrators are known to mediate the quality of the teaching/learning and work processes. Insofar as health is concerned, most feel vulnerable and worn, particularly in psycho-emotional aspects, a fact that influences their social relations within and outside of the workplace. Although the professional practice has been identified as a source of stability and of personal and financial realization, the precariousness and work overload stand out and tend to induce suffering and illness. This reflection among professors, labor union movements, and educational institutions may support institutional, legal, curriculum and social adjustments in order to improve the process of teaching and learning and the professors' quality of life.

Promoting health is a global policy that has been proposed, is contemporary in public health, and addresses health from a broader viewpoint. The National Policy for Full Attention to Men's Health is based on male uniqueness. This study aimed to analyze men's discourse on disease prevention, on health, and on the need to promote it. Descriptive and exploratory qualitative research conducted with 57 men, residents assigned to a Family Health Strategy unit in the municipality of Marília, state of São Paulo, integrated with Education through Work for Health Program. The researchers used the discourse of the collective subject technique, which is based on the questions 'what do you do to maintain your health?' and 'what do you consider harmful to your health?' In the results, the discourses analyzed showed that most men do not fully understand the sense of health or disease and prevention, besides the fact that they base themselves on biological scaling. The National Policy for Full Attention to Men's Health is an important health promotion strategy; however, it still requires professionals and institutions from different areas, over and beyond health, to be agile, creative, and qualified to deal with such uniqueness and vulnerabilities.

A new type of relationship that has developed between science, technology, and industry in modern life encourages a strong expansion in the consumption of specialized goods and services, building diverse ethical issues in this process. This article aims to analyze the relationship between ethics, specialization, and the labor market in the productive post-restructuring of dentistry. It is an exploratory-descriptive qualitative study involving the application of a questionnaire among thirty students of a specialization course in southern Brazil. The categories were constructed through the ethical issues highlighted in the discourse ofprofessionals and analyzed using the discursive textual method. The categories studied were the pursuit of specialization as an imperative to stand out on the market and ethical issues in the construction of new needs for aesthetic and specialized consumption based on singular patient-patient convincing schemes. A picture of a paradigmatic crisis in the dental profession encourages the expansion of specialties guided by aesthetic consumption, which, in turn, amplifies the importance of the ethical debate in the lato sensu training and, also, in continuing education in work in oral health. There is a need for a proactive participation of professional councils, professional associations, and government institutions related to oral health in the construction of the ethical and bioethical debate focused on professional work and training.

The study aimed to characterize health education groups conducted for hypertension and diabetes patients in Campo Mourão, Paraná, Brazil. This is a quantitative study conducted among 121 professionals with ties to the Family Health Strategy. The researchers used a form containing descriptive and evaluation variables, like the holding of groups with the community, issues discussed, professionals participating, suggestions, and issues. The results showed that 70 percent of the units offer health education groups; however, such groups are focused on curative themes. Professionals who were involved most were community health workers and nurses. Although group setup should be changed in order to better promote health education, few professionals recognized the importance of making such changes. It is essential that family health team professionals are trained to realize that the health education process is not limited to the transfer of information, rather that it includes the shared construction of knowledge between the user and the health provider.

This paper develops the idea that the integrated curriculum and the education of youth and adults, associated with the National Program for the Integration of Vocational Education with Basic Education in the Education of Youth and Adults Mode, act as analyzers, showing how education constitutes and enables the emergence of other forms of educational organization. The proposed curriculum integration contained in this program enables a discussion on how education has organized its relationships, practices, times, and spaces. It also allows discourses that reaffirm the need to adapt 'regular' education projects to the specificities of the education of youth and adults student to be surpassed, questioning other forms of education. Besides questioning the transformative potential of the integrated curriculum, the text examines the reactions and movements arising in clashes between instituted and the instituting, which can either intensify or reduce the critical property of the proposal, seeking to make it equivalent to the already existing social forms. It concludes by highlighting that education, while it owes to the way society is structured the conditions that make it possible, contributes to producing the subjectivities that circulate in this very same society.