Abstract
The study has the goal of discussing what is a concept based on the adoption of the Marxist theoretical framework to define it, with the intent of answering whether the existence of a concept of health is possible or not. We read Marxist authors who deal with the relationship between thought and objective reality, trying to rely on many different authors within this framework, in order to enrichen the current debate in Collective Health. As a result, we understand that that the concept is the way in which thought apprehends the objects that are present in objective reality and that, precisely because it does not contain the concrete-factual features that are present in each particular case, it enables us to understand them based on their abstract-universal objects. Therefore, we conclude that, even though health is an extremely complex object, the existence of its concept is possible, and, according to our frameworks, this concept must refer to the socio-historic whole and to the politicization of the technical dimension that is historically implicated with this social.
Keywords
collective health; formation of concepts; health; labor; knowledge