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The debate on the concept of health is extensive, involving convergences and recurring divergences between authors. This study is a theoretical-reflective essay prepared by a Nurse for the broad conceptual construction on health, based on the study plan of the discipline "Health concepts and their connections in the work of Nursing / Health", belonging to the Post-Stricto sensu graduation from a Federal University in the extreme south of Brazil. The objective is to stimulate a plural and edifying reflection in the academic and professional environment on health, based on the presentation of a conceptual construction based on different knowledge, theories and nexuses. The reflections presented throughout this study enabled the construction of an expanded health concept, understood as the subjective state of well-being, satisfaction, autonomy and functionality, regardless of the dimension, to carry out activities proposed or expected by one of the individual in relation to the himself, facing intrinsic / extrinsic multidimensional and multifactorial aspects, considering nonmodifiable limiting factors, living / working conditions, and the ability to adapt and interact with the environment, thus transmuting one's own being. Discussions about health are considered endless and their understanding is constantly reframed, whether individually or collectively, socially or intellectually. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]