[A program of adult health promotion by health care workers]

The purpose 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 refers to the presuppositions presented in the introduction of the article, as well as, with the Epidemiologic Model proposed by BLUM.