Vol. 49 No. especial 2 ago (2025): Workers’ Health as a Human Right: towards the 5th CNSTT

This special issue of the journal ‘Saúde em Debate’ is the result of a collective construction between the Brazilian Association of Public Health (ABRASCO), through its Thematic Group on Workers’ Health (GTSTT), and the Ministry of Health, through the General Coordination of Surveillance in Workers’ Health (CGSAT), in the commitment to contribute to the 5th National Conference on Workers’ Health (5th CNSTT). With the theme ‘Worker’s Health as a Human Right: towards the 5th CNSTT’, this edition aims to provide conference participants with input from the praxis of Workers’ Health (STT), especially on the changes in the world of work in the last decade […] The new ways of working induced by digital platformization have brought other forms of illness, many of them resulting from the intensification of precarious work, aggravated by the loss of social security and labor rights in the last decade, while new challenges are imposed on workers as a result of climate change and the financialization of the capitalist world”.

Topics covered: Evaluation of the implementation of ‘Qualifica Cerest’ in Porto Alegre; Psychological suffering, work intensification and mental exhaustion in Call Centers; Workplace violence amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Ceará; Gender as a social determinant of health for motorcycle delivery workers on digital platforms; Social vulnerability from the perspective of workers affected by COVID-19; New work relationships on mental health in Paraíba; Workers’ Health as Human Rights; Neoliberalism is bad for health: New configurations in the world of work; Long working hours, political emancipation, and workers’ health; Care work on the health agenda: Invisibility, overload, and strain on female workers; National Policy on Workers’ Health;  (PNSTT) in Primary Health Care; Representation and performance of Workers’ Health in Health Councils; Health surveillance in contexts of exposure to agrotoxics in Brazil; Workers’ rights in the context of the use of asbestos in Brazil; Migration and precarious work; Health policies for sex workers; Work in Traditional Peoples and Communities: Ecofeminist inspirations; Trans individuals in the workforce; Health, gender, and the invisibility of unpaid domestic work; Workers with disabilities in the face of the capitalist crisis; Workers’ Health as a Human Right: The foundations of the Brazilian Sanitary Reform; The Unified Health System and Workers’ Health in Brazil; The State Reference Center for Workers’ Health at the 5th Conference; The CEREST and the app-based delivery workers; Review of the book ‘História da fadiga: da Idade Média aos nossos dias’, by Georges Vigarello.