Social sciences and public health: creating knowledge at its interface

Abstract

The paper deals with the relations between social sciences and health in the knowledge production of knowledge in the field of Public and Collective Health/Collective Health. It addresses the challenges forof articulating the several areas of knowledge comprised in this areafield, as well as the difficulties concerning the building of a research agenda able to face the demands of the health public policies in health;, it considers considering the rise of a knowledge field which, besides being empirical, is actively concerned with establishing health as a right and a public good.