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Abstract
When talking about health and work, it is important to recognise the different approaches to these concepts in order to reach a point of convergence. From the Latin American perspective, health comprises safe living conditions for the individual, although historically it has a social and politically controversial character; likewise, health is influenced by culture, making man constantly adapt to the environment. Regarding work, it is a component of economic production which, from a social perspective, is understood as the determinant in the distribution and access to resources; it also has a political/economic focus, being work a social construction impregnated with power, and culturally it is the human activity that allows the construction of useful elements for life. A search of natural terms: health, work, occupation, concepts, was carried out in different databases, carrying out a conceptual analysis and generating a reflection on the health-work relationship. The results propose an approach to this relationship, approaching the concepts from historical, theoretical, political and cultural approaches. In conclusion, analysing these theoretical approaches favours the understanding of the health-work relationship as a complex social phenomenon within the framework of a capitalist economic and social system.
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