Social Welfare and health of the worker: a dispersed demand

Abstract

The present article has the objective of discuss about Social Work in the field of Worker's Health, showing the way Social Work get closer to this disperse demand. Elements that historically surround the debate concerning work and health are pointed out, expressing the advances and contradictions within the field of worker´s health. For Social Work, the challenges in this field of knowledge increase the theoretical and practical requirements for facing these confrontations and manifestations of these two central categories: health and work.

Worker's health; Social Services; Social-occupational spaces