Interdisciplinarity: an articulating movement in the field of worker’s health

Abstract

The field of worker’s health aims to study and intervene in the work-health relationships from the work process, and incorporate the theoretical knowledge of technicians into the practical knowledge of workers. It is characterized by non-routine methods and techniques to the service organization model of health systems, where intervention and regulation of environmental and labor conditions is an object shared by non-traditional stakeholders, which makes it a complex field. The process of interdisciplinary work in health teams organizes in a more comprehensive way influential factors in the health of the people, hardly reached by the disciplines alone. The interdisciplinary practice in worker’s health allows essential advances in the health/work relationship and consequently in the improvement of their health level.