The article hopes to briefly characterize the Collective Health field and the attempts of institutionalizing knowledge and procedures involved. It gives an idea of how this field has grown and the challenges it has faced as it tries to be part of the health professionals training on the undergraduate level, since the 80s. It discusses the perspectives of the undergraduate Collective Health teaching based on the focus of the work process in health and on the strengthening of partnership procedures developed among university, health services and the community.
Human Resources Qualification; Collective Health - Undergraduate level; Teaching of Health Professionals