ABSTRACT
This essay seeks to conceptually approach the category of 'territory', assuming it as an essential research category in public health sciences. The first part addresses the territory as a marker of wellbeing and ill-being of society in relation to three cases of territorial configuration: territories of extractivist accumulation; urban territories of sacrifice and territories of life. In the second part of the essay, territory is discussed as a research category in public health.
KEYWORDS
Social vulnerability; Public health; Social inequity