Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
The aim of the article is to conduct a historical analysis of the Federal Network’s role in offering technical health courses between 2017 and 2023, based on data obtained from the Nilo Peçanha Platform of the Ministry of Education. It starts from the inherent problematization of the low indicators of public sector participation in the training of health technicians, the curricularization of health through the pedagogy of competencies, and the advances of neoliberal policies that alter the relationships of human and professional training. The article is guided by the theoretical and methodological framework of historical and dialectical materialism, understanding that the relationship between work, education, and health constitutes a determination of social reality. The results corroborated the low participation of the Federal Network in offering technical courses and enrollments in health and the intense representativeness of the private sector. However, they revealed an important data point that endorses the political and social role of the Federal Network and, mainly, of the Federal Institutes: the continuous increase in the number of enrollments in integrated high school health education.
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