Berlinguer was an essential member of the Italian health movement, which was a collective construction and mobilization formed by hundreds of organizations such as labor unions, trade unions, and social, political, and professional associations.This movement achieved the approval of a new labor law in 1970, based on the problematization of the issue of health in factories, that eight years later led to the Psychiatric Reform and the Health Reform.This activist experience turned him into a prominent figure for the Latin American Social Medicine and Collective Health movement.His books translated into Portuguese and Spanish are required references for a social interpretation of the health-disease-care process.Sergio Arouca considered Giovanni Berlinguer to be one of the principal intellectual mentors of the Brazilian Health Reform.