Epidemiologia e Saúde Coletiva: aspectos históricos e evolução da produção científica

Epidemiology, with Collective Health, forms the pillar of scientific health research in order to contribute substantially to the development of actions and services. Thus, this article aims to reflect on the historical aspects and evolution of scientific production in the fields of epidemiology and collective health. A survey was carried out in LILACS, SciELO and VHL databases in 2019, with the following descriptors: Public Health , Epidemiology and Applications of epidemiology , using the Boolean operator “AND”. The guiding question was: How is the current scene of epidemiology and collective health? 15 productions were considered, and the analysis showed that interest in the theme is not recent and has increased over time; however it still has a limited number of articles, geographically concentrated in the south and southeast regions, marked by the low diversity of theories and weaknesses in methodological contributions.