“…Eight articles used the expression "production of life" based on expanded health actions. They are: Inscriptions of the therapist-patient relationship in the occupational therapy area , using Basaglia as a theoretical reference; Street life and cooperativism: moving through the production of values (Ghirardi et al, 2005), which does not mention reference to the expression; Territorial mental health care practices: experiences of a psychosocial care center in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Castro & Maxta, 2010), mentioning Tenório; The insertion of psychosocial rehabilitation in extra-hospital mental health services: the conflict between instrumental rationality and practical rationality (Fiorati & Saeki, 2011), mentioning Mângia and Nicácio; Psychosocial Care Centers as spaces that promote life: reports of deinstitutionalization in Alagoas (Ribeiro, 2014), with no reference; Health and live networks of comprehensive care in primary care: articulating strategic actions in the territory (Ferreira & Costa, 2017), using Mângia and Muramoto; New looks at other modes of existence (Ferreira et al, 2018), using Alverga and Dimenstein, Rotelli, Merhy, Moebus, Deleuze and Guattari as references; A body: mapping life trajectories of subjects with stroke sequelae (Gelatti & Angeli, 2019), referring to Castro, Lima, Brunello, Ceccim, Deleuze and Guattari. Connected to the health work, the production of life expands the understanding of the subject in its various relational dimensions, as a social being that is produced in networks, inserted in a map of existence that encompasses multiplicities and realities in the production of life. Thus, the role of occupational therapists in this network of existence involves a health perspective "[...] understood as a state of life production" (Ghirardi et al, 2005, p. 609).…”