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This issue of Trabalho, Educação e Saúde explores the multiple interrelations between education and health, two fields of knowledge and two types of practices that relate to the current forms of socialization and institutionalization in effect. The Debate section is dedicated to examining how the notions of 'public' and 'private' are constituted in education and health. Carlos Roberto Jamil Cury's "School education in Brazil: the public and private spheres" opens the section and, despite focusing on the relation between the two spheres in the fields of education and teaching, also seeks to facilitate similar analyses in the health field. Ligia Bahia's "Advancements and drawbacks of the Unified Health System (SUS): regulation of the relations between public and private spheres" examines the conflicts between the existing notions of 'public' and 'private' (such as in the Unified health System as proposed by the Constitution of 1988) and their derived practices (such as tax-breaks and direct public expenditures on private HMOs). Marcos Aurélio Nogueira's "The notions of public and private in the social development of Brazil: old, new and very new conflicts" outlines the history of a Brazilian political elite who resists the republican and democratic way of governing. The article also provides insights on the institutionalization of education and health in Brazil. Three other articles also reflect on the institutionalization of education and health and their interrelations. Maria Stephanou's article, "Medical discourses, education and science: schools and students under examination", analyses the concurrent emergence of education and medical discourses over the first decades of the 20th century. In the process, not only was education defined as one of the missions of medicine (in the development of the social preventive medicine, which questions the prominence of anatomy and physiology), but also medicine begins to change education into a scientific practice by introducing tests and procedures of that area. Gastão Wagner Campos's "The Paideia effect and the health field: thoughts on the relation between subject and life-world" furthers the investigation of the interrelation between education and health. His article reintroduces training based on four work process-related aspects: the ends of human action; the means used to produce change; the targets of interventions; and their results-all applied to the health field. The impact of the worker's health on Education and the search for new paths for research are also present in the issue. In the Articles section, Sadi dal Rosso's "Intensity and immateriality in labor and health" reintroduces the discussion on labor and health conditions, focusing on cognitive, emotional, relational and social data concerning the health of the working class, thus, raising new questions for the worker's education.