Health care in Brazil is set as a unified system, running under a legal basis and protected by the Constitution. Health is positioned as a right of every citizen, and both models are defined with a view to the operation of services organized for this purpose. The first level in Brazil is called Basic Care, and its conceptual basis comes from the Primary Health Care (PHC). This paper aimed to understand and analyze how organized is the theoretical production of Public Health in Brazil about the social construction of health demand care in PHC, in order to create a reference to analyze it. The survey was conducted using the terms related to the initial problem: health care demand, basic health care and technical health care models.
Primary Health Care; health care; health demand; health needs