Editorial

Abstract

This set is formed by papers and lectures presented in the conference, as well as articles submitted to the Journal. The latter were selected to compose the Supplement because they also deal with issues related to the discussion about The public dimension in public health -The production of the (common) welfare, which was the theme of the 13 th Conference.The publication of articles with many theoretical perspectives and approaches and written by many authors expresses the Journal's commitment, by means of the partnership between the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo (USP) and APSP, to foster the dissemination of scientific production in the area of health. Thus, the Journal promotes knowledge exchange among teaching, research and health services institutions, and guarantees a diversity of views concerning ways of reflecting on and providing healthcare.The production of public space in contemporary society and, particularly, in the context of ethical-political disputes present in the many levels of Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS -Brazil's National Healthcare System), is problematized in these texts. They provide analyses of State, society and power relations from the perspective of the Human and Social Sciences, Collective Health and Law, among other areas.The texts that reproduce the lecturers and speakers' discourse offer a critical reflection on restrictions to the consolidation of the public dimension and to the construction of the common dimension. At the same time, they reveal, in the commitment to public ethics, a possibility to public and collective health.