Abstract

SOUZA, Wladimir Ferreira de  and  ATHAYDE, Milton. Psychological dynamics and work of health professionals in Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic : contributing to comprehend⇿ transform their experience. Laboreal [online]. 2021, vol.17, n.1, e17673.  Epub July 01, 2021. ISSN 1646-5237.  https://doi.org/10.4000/laboreal.17673.

The paper presents an initial analysis of issues related to health work in Brazil, in the context of COVID-19 Pandemic, seeking to contribute to a debate about the relationships between work process, the ongoing psychological dynamics and the struggle for health. It is based on a framework of Work Organizational Psychology, guided by the point of view of the activity and experience, to account for materials emerging from an experiment that has been developed within the scope of “University Extension”, under the coordination of the two authors of the paper. Initially, both the international emergency context of COVID-19 and general characteristics of the work situations that are being faced by health professionals are presented. Then, upon selection of a main axis as the object of attention, the analysis of some work situations, present in that dramatic context, is carried out, which allowed to present some clues, as conclusion.

Keywords : work; health; work clinics; ergology; COVID-19.

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