A Dinâmica dos Vínculos e Sentidos na Função Pública dos Trabalhadores da Saúde.

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the bond that workers of the Unified Health System (SUS) establish with the public function they exercise. The meaning of bond privileged by this research is defined by a dynamic that involves the brazilian public bureaucracy and the ethical-political positioning of the public workers, with greater weight in the anteriority of the constitution and consolidation of the public function by the State. The demarcation of the bond analysis category is given by the professional’s relationship with the public health policy, in a way that their work and political-ideological positioning are aligned with the principles of the universal right to health and act in the consolidation of the sanitarian system. The bond category is also defined by the differentiation of its reduction to immediate labor issues and corporate interests, which engender cyclical political claims in the support of a weakened health system. The dissertation used as methodology an exploratory research on the constitution of national States and public bureaucracy, with the related formation of the public function. The transition from state functions of coercion and collection of taxes to social functions, inaugurated by the creation of the social rights in the mid-19th century, is the historic landmark that guides the expansion of a public bureaucracy focused on social protection systems and, later, to the welfare States. At the same time, the advent of a notion of public service crossed by principles of citizenship and collectivity formed the basis of social support for social policies among its workers and beneficiaries. Context that marked the of the SUS and the bond of its workers.