Health and urban space: intertwining knowledge coming from different areas in a postgraduate context

Abstract

We intend to build a richer interlocution between urbanization/metropolization and the processes of health, disease and education, beneficial to research, teaching and public policies. The growing urbanization and concentration in metropolises urge us to present reflections and experiences of/in the discipline Health and Urban Space (SEU, in Portuguese). Living in the city, conceived in the form of strategies that respond to health implications and social problems related to health inequities such as violence, traffic and (re)emergent diseases, transmissible or not, stimulates an inter/transdisciplinary approach. In this discipline, we have been providing a holistic education and qualification for students since 2015, focusing on a healthy and more knowledgeable urban life, resulting from the intertwining of knowledge deriving from three Postgraduate Programs of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG): Geography, Public Health and Architecture.