Editorial

Abstract

This number of Saúde e Sociedade, in continuity with its editorial line, brings to its readers an interdisciplinary dossier about work as material and knowledge production in its interface with the field of health and also a set of articles whose variety of subjects show the magnitude of this field and the diversity of methodologies.Regarding this aspect, it is noteworthy the innovation effort which goes side by side with more traditional studies, as well as the demand for publications from other countries, in particular from Portugal. Thus, the themes of territorialisation and of care indicate the international amplitude of some professional practices and express, at the same time, the complexity of professional training and of actions in these practices. If the case of nursing is taken as an example, if one wants to strengthen the field of caring for special populations (or for the elderly, as it has been discussed here), it is necessary a training that surpasses the technical dimension and includes an integrated and integrating perspective, with theoretical and conceptual references coming from the human sciences -as proposes the article about territory and care.The sequence of articles allows the establishment of relationships between themes such as right to health and ombudsmanship, municipalisation and territory, conceptions-opinions and subjects, humanization and therapies as resources and realms of social insertion. This agenda, together with the studies presented about morbidity and mortality differentials, invites the readers to act and reflect about the field of health in an interdisciplinary range of approaches which go beyond therapeutic aspects. This has been the hallmark of Saúde e Sociedade, reinforced by the fact that the articles are usually signed by few authors.