Health work and education: policies, anti-politics and national challenges.

Health systems depend on workers to ensure coverage and the right to health, but face global and national challenges related to education, employment and health workforce (FTS) performance. This work aims to analyze the policies and challenges faced by the FTS in Brazil, highlighting the influence of political contexts on the management of work and education in the Unified Health System (SUS). Based on a narrative review of national studies and documents, the text proposes a periodization of the trajectory of public policies in the area, categorized into: moment of antipolitics (1990-2002), moment of politics (2003-2015), return of antipolitics (2016 -2022) and policy resumption (2023-current). It is understood that government actions in response to social and collective demands shape the context in which the FTS operates. Public policies are not isolated entities; on the contrary, they reflect the social environment and involve complex negotiations of competing values, ideologies and interests.