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.
In this essay, we discuss health as an objective process, constituted of (and in) the universality of the social being. We dialoged with authors of Latin American social medicine and public health, because they pioneered this debate based on the Marxist theoretical framework. We seek to contribute to bringing the ‘ontology’ of Lukács as a theoretical framework, which is still little used in the health field. We note that the ontological approach contributes to a more accurate understanding of health as a social process and praxis (in a counter-hegemonic perspective), paving the way for understanding the current challenges of the field, as well as to have a glimpse its limits and possibilities.
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