This research aimed to understand the health concepts that guide the work of organizing teachers within the Pró-Saúde. The theoretical and methodological approaches were put in perspective from a hermeneutic orientation. Field work included contributions of eight teachers of the Pró-Saúde II Unochapecó. The instrument used was one semi-structured interview. The interpretive process was prepared from the foundation of hermeneutics Gadamer and Habermas and grounded on the thematic analysis proposed by Minayo. Health concepts identified are strongly linked to welfare notion. References with which the employees work in daily life are: Documents of the World Health Organization, the Ottawa Charter, the Brazilian Federal Constitution and the policies implemented by the Health Ministry's directives of Pro-Health, according to the employees, allowed to discuss more properly the concept of extended health, which favors, to a certain extent, the systematization and organization of teaching interventions for the effectiveness of initial training in health. So more than "setting" or showing one or a few concepts of health, we understand that the most important is to keep open the discussion on the "health sense" with which we act with others in different intervention processes.
hermeneutics; health concepts; Pró-Saúde