This study approaches the establishment of the field of Collective Health in Brazil in three dimensions: the origins of Collective Health, historical aspects of health in Brazil, and Collective Health as a pedagogical practice, as well as prospects for the field. The underlying notion in the elaboration of this study considers Collective Health as a field, within the concept proposed by Pierre Bourdieu. The author presents information on the situation with graduate courses and the curricular structure. The conclusions demarcate the view of Collective Health as a field based on interdisciplinarity and the quantitative and qualitative, synchronous and diachronic, and objective and subjective dimensions.
Collective Health; Collective Health; Collective Health