Apresentação

Abstract

THE GLOBAL SCENARIO PRESENTS HUGE CHALLENGES regarding health and environment. In addition to hunger, environmental imbalance and pollution have contributed to climate change and water crisis, showing how the anthropic action impacts the alarming health situation and the recurrence or increase of diseases such as yellow fever, dengue, zika and parasitic diseases. Thus, environmental control actions, such as sanitation, inside and outside work environments are essential for the reduction of externalities caused to public health. They focus on the study of environmental factors in the physical environment in which man dwells, works and coexist, which can have a damaging effect on physical, mental and social well-being. They aim to contribute to the promotion of healthy environments, reduction of environmental risks and the mitigation of their impacts in health. Its work also covers situations of disasters caused by natural factors or by human interference. Regarding health and work, the picture is not different, since we are equally challenged to understand the current configurations of the productive processes, as well as the work organizations and their repercussions on the health of the working population. Aspects such as intensification and social precariousness of work, loss of social, social security and labor rights reflect historical setbacks of achievements of the working class, pointing to the essential need to strengthen social movements and local resistance with the participation of workers. In this context, this thematic issue of the journal 'Saúde em Debate' ('Health in Debate') aims to contribute to a reflection on current issues of health, work and the environment. This supplement is the result of an institutional commitment from the Postgraduate Program in Public Health of the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The proposal of the Coordination of the Postgraduate Program, approved in the Postgraduate Coordination (CPG), is the publication of a sequence of thematic numbers, which bring together institutional areas of the mentioned program. Here, in this issue, two areas of knowledge are presented: health, work and environment and environmental sanitation. It is worth mentioning that the open call made possible the sending of papers from several teaching and research institutions in public health in Brazil, including Latin American countries. In fact, the theme of health, work and environment, analyzed here under different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, has successfully mirrored the production of knowledge in these areas, both nationally and internationally. A total of 127 articles were received from all over Brazil and Latin America, which, through the team of invited editors, were submitted to peer review and, after approval and revision by the authors, composed this special issue of the journal. Thus, this issue contains 19 original articles, 4 essays, 1 literature review and 3 experience reports, all resulting from dissertations...