Ethical reflection: The conflictive relationship between health and work

The troubled relationship between health and work

Abstract

In Latin America, work is an unknown risk, reason why it is impossible to consider any work as safe and therefore does make conflictive its relationship with health, as examined from ethics. This is a thesis statement which is product of a reflection, from an analytical and interpretive perspective, on the relationship between health and work, which is based on the scientific consideration of all kind of work as dangerous.

Objetive: The aim of this study was to analyze and interpret healthwork relationship, from a moral perspective.

Methodology: Reflection on research findings and official speeches, by ethical analysis and interpretation, from original sources of concluded investigations about health and work relationship. Ethical reflection: it is unveiled the ignorance of the risks supervening to work,which leads to the irresponsible idea of the inevitability of them: the "assumed risk" that replaces the responsibility of "tolerable risk", and so transform the occupational health professional, forced by circumstances, into a messenger prophet.

Conclusions: The conflicts that arise from the relationship between health and work in Latin America differ from those proper of the world called "developed", because the risks are trivialized, are administered with a sense of resignation, they are understood as a simple interface with elements and are seem as collateral.