Direito à saúde, meio ambiente de trabalho e transformação social

Abstract

In this work we analyze the right to health in the working environment of construction, from the perspective of risk, prevention and public policy, with emphasis on the activity that exposes the worker to solar radiation and therefore can be a decisive factor for diagnosis of skin cancer. The peculiarities involving workers exposed to solar radiation are complex and range from the lack of legal provision Agent solar radiation as unhealthy to the difficulty in characterizing the causation of skin cancer as an occupational disease. The analysis will focus on risk from radiation exposure and its legal effects. In this context of risk, prevention is essential to materialize the right to health in the workplace, and this extension of the right to health is the result of a constitutional reading, especially from the art. 196 and Art. 7, paragraph XXII, which alludes to the prevention in the work environment. In this context, public policies are shown as an instrument guaranteeing the prevention of diseases and the implementation of right to health in the workplace. For this study, we use the theory of social systems as a theoretical framework.