Action research: methodological proposal for action planning in primary care services in the context of environmental health and occupational health

The Brazilian health system proposes actions to operationalize environmental health and worker, in order to address the complexity of the disease process in the territories. The objective is to present the action research as a methodological approach, facilitating the analysis of complex webs of economic development and the implications on labor, environment and health in communities in Brazilian Northeast. Action research is designed with a group of 14 subjects and was conducted in the form of workshops. In making the research and development of linkages flowed propositions from the theory-reflection-action subjects. The method has a potential to denude complex problems related to environmental health and worker, it favors human interaction built the place in which he lives.