A classificatory system of nursing practice in collective health (International Classification of Nursing Practices in Collective Health® - Classificação Internacional das Práticas de Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva®) has been adopted in Curitiba's primary care health services as part of its policy. This study, descriptive and exploratory, seeks to show Nursing's contributions to epidemiological profile improvement in children's health. The data was collected through the reports about nursing diagnoses from the municipal computer database, and was analyzed using the Nursing Praxical Intervention Theory in Collective Health. The results have shown that children's health profiles in this municipality are better than in the remainder of the country. Nursing practices, qualified by using nursing diagnoses and a classificatory system, have allowed assessing improvement in health-illness processes. Finally nursing has been able to identify health needs and diagnoses, strengths and impairments of health-illness processes.
Child health; Health policy; Nursing diagnosis; Public health
