Abstract
Introduction:
Know the perception of nursing professors concerning the relationship health and environment and how the approach to the issue occurs in nursing professional training.
Methods:
Qualitative, exploratory, descriptive research with seventeen nurisng professors from five nursing undergraduate courses. Data collected through semi-structured interview and analyzed by content analysis.
Results:
The interface health and environment is perceived from two perspectives: cause-effect, understanding environment like disease causing, and collective-ethical-complex, integrating social relationships and human behavior with the environment. Concerning the approach in the training, it has been noticed that although it is presented, it is still superficial, and a gap is found in the profesional training.
Final considerations:
It is considered that the weakness in the approach of the training issue, as well as the discontinuation in the spaces where the issue is present, there is a lack of theoretical basis which covers the complexity involved.
Keywords:
Nursing; Environmental health; Education higher; Faculty