Brito Jussara, Neves Mary Yale, Athayde Milton
National School of Public Health, Rua Leopolda Bulhões 1480 Manguinhos, 21041-210 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
New Solut. 2007;17(1-2):111-21. doi: 10.2190/8267-2827-85U2-7964.
This article presents a health intervention-research project done with workers in Brazilian public schools. Health, as we understand it, is linked both to the way in which we live and to our capacity to change that way of life. We emphasize the critical importance of initiating dialogue between research professionals and workers (co-investigators) in order to understand and transform work situations. We highlight the effects of debates about gender relations that led to work transformations. Such debates made it easier for workers and researchers to understand that men and women experience job requirements differently. We found that some staff favored reproduction of a sexually differentiated school system. These debates also allowed male and female workers to make their family members aware of difficulties in their work, unknown to society in general. We considered how to expand this research process, including examples of how the work was transformed.
本文介绍了一项针对巴西公立学校工作人员开展的健康干预研究项目。我们所理解的健康，既与我们的生活方式相关，也与我们改变那种生活方式的能力有关。我们强调研究专业人员与工作人员（共同研究者）展开对话以理解和改变工作状况的至关重要性。我们突出了关于性别关系的辩论所产生的影响，这些辩论带来了工作变革。此类辩论让工作人员和研究人员更容易理解男性和女性对工作要求的体验有所不同。我们发现一些工作人员倾向于维持性别分化的学校体系。这些辩论还使男女工作人员能够让其家庭成员了解他们工作中的困难，而这些困难通常不为社会大众所知。我们思考了如何扩展这一研究过程，包括工作是如何发生变革的实例。
