# Social reproduction and health: contributions from Breilh and Lukács to social thinking in collective health

## TL;DR

This paper explores how social reproduction and health are connected using theories from Breilh and Lukács to understand structural inequalities in health.

## Contribution

It integrates Breilh's dimensional frameworks and Lukács' labor mediation to analyze health through a critical social lens.

## Key findings

- Breilh outlines social reproduction dimensions and principles for transforming life, including sustainability and solidarity.
- Lukács highlights labor's role in social reproduction and how alienation can lead to health degradation.
- Both theories critique capitalist inequalities and their health impacts, offering insights for rethinking health practices.

## Abstract

To analyze the relationship between social reproduction and health based on the theories of Jaime Breilh and Georg Lukács.

This is a theoretical-conceptual study grounded in the immanent analysis of works by these authors.

It was found that, for Breilh, social reproduction establishes the dimensional frameworks for the social determination of health: general, particular, and individual. The author also defines essential principles for transforming life: sustainability, sovereignty, solidarity, and integral security. Lukács, in turn, emphasizes the mediation between the reproduction of individuals and society, highlighting the primacy of labor, which produces use-value. Within this relationship, alienating mediations may emerge, leading to human degradation, including health impacts.

Both perspectives offer elements for rethinking health practices. Despite their differences, they critique the structural inequalities inherent in the capitalist mode of production and their repercussions on health.

Analisar a relação entre reprodução social e saúde apoiando-se nas teorias de Jaime Breilh e Georg Lukács.

Trata-se de um estudo teórico-conceitual baseado na análise imanente de obras desses autores.

Constatou-se que, para Breilh, a reprodução social estabelece os marcos dimensionais para a determinação social da saúde: geral, particular e individual. O autor ainda define os princípios essenciais para a transformação da vida: sustentabilidade, soberania, solidariedade e segurança integral. Por sua vez, Lukács enfatiza a mediação entre a reprodução dos indivíduos e da sociedade, destacando a primazia do trabalho, que é produtor de valor de uso. Nessa relação, podem ser interpostas mediações alienantes, determinando a degradação humana, incluindo impactos na saúde.

Ambas as perspectivas oferecem elementos para repensar as práticas de saúde. Apesar de suas diferenças, criticam a desigualdade estrutural do modo de produção capitalista e suas repercussões na saúde.