This study relates the attempts of the discipline Collective Health Nursing with focus in transmissible diseases to reorganize its teaching object, its theorical and practical content, and its pedagogical atrategics, as a contribution to the formation of a nursing professional comnpromissed with Collective Health. It descrybes the context of Collective Health in Brazil and the characteristics needed to improve the implementation of the Unified Health Care System in the Country. It also reports the content and the padagogical strategics used in the discipline and makes a critical analysis of its potentialities and limitations to the porposed goal.
Nursing; Teaching-learning; Transmissible diseases; Colective health