Collaborative Development for the Prevention of Occupational Accidents and Diseases

Chapter 1. Workers' Health. From Diagnosis to Formative Intervention.- Chapter 2. The Theoretical and Methodological Basis of the Change Laboratory .- Chapter 3. Financialization, work and health: economics as a social disease.- Chapter 4. Is it Possible to Conduct a Change Laboratory Without a Demand Recognized by the Organization's Hierarchy?.- Chapter 5. One Activity, two Objects: Preparatory Phase of Change Laboratory in an Attendance Center for Adolescents in Conflict With the law.- Chapter 6. Conflict in a Formative Intervention at a Public School: Lessons for Researcher-Interventionists.- Chapter 7. Open Doors, no Slots. Application of the Change Laboratory at the Renal Replacement Therapy Unit of a Public Hospital.- Chapter 8. Envisioning a Solution for a Runaway Object: a Formative Intervention in a Child Labor Combat Network.- Chapter 9. Challenges to Change Laboratory Learning in a Dynamic and Complex Civil Construction Project.- Chapter 10. Shared Construction of Change Scenarios for Academic Activities: the case of a School of Public Health and its School Health Center.- Chapter 11. Challenges in the Care to the Injured Worker at SUS: From the Anger Network to the Shared Construction of a Care Line.- Chapter 12. Change Laboratory in an Urban Cleaning Company: a Dialogue with Female Street Sweepers.- Chapter 13. The Clash Between new and old Models of Surveillance System: a case study of Change Laboratory in a Workers' Health Reference Center.- Chapter 14. Contributions from the Change Laboratory to the Analysis and Prevention of Accidents' Model.- Chapter 15. Learning in and from Change Laboratory Interventions for Developing Workers' Health in Brazil.

Rodolfo Andrade de Gouveia Vilela is full professor at the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Graduated in Mechanic Engineer at the University of São Paulo, he holds an MA a PhD in Collective Health from the University of Campinas, Brazil. His main research interests are workers' health police, work related accident prevention, ergonomics and Change Laboratory.

Marco Antonio Pereira Querol holds a BSc in Agricultural Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, an MA in Management of Agroecological Knowledge and Social Change from the Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and a PhD from the Institute of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His main research interests are Sustainable Rural Development, Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, and interventions using the methodology of Change Laboratory, developed at the University of Helsinki.

Manoela Gomes Reis Lopes holds a PhD in PublicHealth from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, with a period of doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland under the supervision of Prof. Yrjö Engeström, the creator of the Change Laboratory method. She is currently developing a post-doctoral research project at the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo with technical and scientific cooperation with the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has experience in the fields of public health, health surveillance, workers' health, prevention of accidents and work injuries, ergonomics, research of developmental work and on methodology of Change Laboratory.


Sandra Lorena Beltran Hurtado is a PhD candidate at the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Graduated in Physical Therapy at the National University of Colombia, she holds an MA in Public Health from the University of São Paulo and has experience in occupational health, acting on the following subjects: work