Family Health Worker Revisited

[Health education in the user-worker relationship in the the daily routine of family health teams].

The scope of this research was to analyze how the practice of health education occurs in the informal user-worker relationship, and the strategies used for its implementation in routine primary care. It is a qualitative study conducted with two Family Health teams and the data was collected through observation and semi-structured interviews and assessed using discourse analysis. Health educatio...

Medical training and nurses of Family Health strategy on worker health aspect.

UNLABELLED Considering the worker's health one of the Unified Health System (SUS) tasks, the Primary Health Care (PHC) and the Family Health Strategy (FHS) play an important role in the development of health actions in the field health-work. In Brazil, where the number of informal and domiciled jobs is high, the FHS becomes a reference in the workers' health actions. Therefore, if the FHS is no...

Community Health Worker Programmes

Health Status, Health Insurance, and Worker Mobility:

The health of the worker.

The health of the worker must nowadays be considered against a background of improved social conditions, of death rates which have fallen continuously for a century, and of a reduction in communicable diseases. At one time industrial medicine was preoccupied with the direct and demonstrably harmful effects of certain occupations on health (Schilling, 1956). Now that many of these situations hav...