Ecology in health: Beyond medical ecology

This study is resulted from a bibliographical research in the Virtual Health Search Engines and Scielo, it aimed to problematize, in an exploratory way, the implications that the word "medical" ecology brings to the studies on which the human ecology has emphasized the health – disease – environment phenomenon, under the integral understanding of the human being in his physical, biological, social and economic environment. The results point out that the ideology underlying the word "medical" has distanced many productions that focus on the health-disease-environment phenomenon from the Human Ecology locus, and in this way it is necessary to break the centralizing and hegemonic paradigm, by the recognizing of the Ecology in Health, in a way to avoid the distancing of relevant contributions from the area of collective health, preventive medicine, health education, health promotion, bringing with this immeasurable damages to science and especially to the society.