The porpoise of this work is to evaluate an alternative methodology of education in adult health care undertaken with health care workers. The evaluation was made by the directional question: what did the Adult Health Course mean to you? The analysis consisted of detecting in the responses, the affirmatives that were respective and grouping them in seven categories: 01. Learning new things; 02. Learning to orient people who goes to the basic Health Unit; 03. Interaction with colleagues; 04. Feeling professionally appraned; 05. Worrisome with sons; 06. Improving way of life; 07. Suggestions. The results to the presuppositions presented in the introduction of the article, as well as, with the Epidemiological Model proposed by BLUM4.
Adult health; promotion of health; prevention of disease