A depressão como doença do trabalho: uma análise jurídica sobre sua caracterização.

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze how depression can be considered work disease according to the legal order of the country, considering the importance of this study in view of the increasing number of workers who have been affected by this disease. First, the evolution of the right to health of the worker in his work environment in Brazil, together with the study on occupational accidents and diseases, is analyzed. Next, the study approaches the damages arising from the occupational accident or illness and its consequences to sick workers. Finally, it explains how happens the characterization of depression as work sickness, its necessary elements and benefits due to the injured. Thus, the main objective of the research is the task of demonstrating on what occasion depression can be considered work sickness, in which case the work performed by the employee influenced the onset of the disease, because it is proven unhealthy. In addition, it observes the difficulties that exist for the characterization of the pathology as an occupational disease, since it is necessary to prove the causal nexus between depression and work, since it is not yet expressly written in the social security regulation that list occupational diseases, except in Chemical intoxication. The history method of procedure was used in the work, which evaluated the evolution of the worker's right to a healthy working environment. In this way, it seeks to clarify this issue that is increasingly evident in the legal-labor context and has great relevance for society.