HEALTH OF WORKERS: FROM TRAINING TO THE INTEGRATION OF EDUCATION AND SERVICE

The Education at Work for Health (Health PET) Program is a teaching and learning strategy that provides an approximation between academia and the NHS strategic areas through teaching, research and extension. The account of experience that follows, aims to describe the experience on the involvement of academic courses in Biomedicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Medicine and Psychology, Health Surveillance in PET, with a focus on Occupational Health. It is a qualitative descriptive study of the experience report type. The activities described took place between the months of May 2013 and June 2014, during which the students performed the Literature Review and insertion (experience) in the Reference Center for Occupational Health (CEREST) of the Municipal Secretary of Health activities Palmas/TO. The PET Health Surveillance - Occupational Health when focused on Primary Health Care (PHC), questions the performance of services tip of the health care network, not to relate the illness to the labor activity that you are or have over of his life. The experiences extra /intra services provided to trainees a new overview of the current status of public health in the country, as well as the role that APS plays in prevention and health promotion at various levels of care in the SUS. With the approach of theory and practice, provided by the program, scholars began to conceive of the health- disease process from an interdisciplinary and multifaceted vision that reflects on the conditions and determinants in Occupational Health and Working as shown in training, traversing geographic, workplace, community, and city limits housing etc. This resulted in a change of values, enabling a new way of understanding the disease process and the subjects of the community. While academics and professionals in training, it was noticed that the PET constituted an important tool to aid and training. The experiences provided to academic conditions for the development of critical and innovative spirit, with respect to new health practices. Thus, trainees, since the academy, become multipliers of a new way of seeing / realizing the health- disease process in APS, facing the Occupational Health, assigning new meanings to their training, with respect to the practice and theory.