Resumen:
In 1976, emerges the Brazilian Center of Health Studies, having as its main objectives, to encourage researches about health and to promote them. Since its creation, the institution stands up for changes in health politics and presents a project to a reformation in the Brazilian public health. The study analyses the Saúde em Debate, journal published by the Center, examining its main features, its running as a dissemination vehicle of academic knowledge and the form in which its columnists had safeguarded the project of a sanitation reform. This paper examines
the first 12 years of the magazine, having as point of arrival the consecration of the Health Unified System.
