Health Evaluation and Worker's Health: the definition of the length of medical leave in focus.

For the purpose of analyzing topics linking the health-disease-work process to medical evaluation practices under the scope of the federal public service and their interaction with Worker's Health, this article investigates the issue of determining the duration of the sick leave period that a worker is granted for caring for their own health, within the Subsistema Integrado de Atenção à Saúde do Servidor (SIASS). To that end, the parameters for granting time off work, as provided by the Manual de Perícia Oficial, and the speeches on this topic by the interviewees were analyzed. The importance given to the topic 'days off work' arises from the fact that it is related to the time it takes the worker to recover, which implies fewer days dedicated to being productive. Interviews were conducted with 32 professionals from 5 educational institutions, and this article highlights some analytical categories: days off work; Manual da Perícia and disagreement between medical evaluators and attending physicians. The results point to the usefulness of revising the Manual taking into account Worker's Health, identifying contradictions; the need for shaping an effectively interdisciplinary evaluation, so that the worker's health-related complaints can be handled from the perspective of the worker's care, and not simply concerning control and surveillance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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