PURPOSE: The purpose of this research was to know teachers' perceptions about the health-disease process related to their voices. METHODS: A qualitative research was carried out, using the focal group for data collection and content analysis for the organization of the teachers' perceptions into theme groups. RESULTS: Four theme groups were identified: knowledge and care, preoccupations and representations, problem identifications and manners to face them. CONCLUSIONS: The study questions traditional educative actions in vocal health and confirms the need for professionals involved with the promotion of teachers' health to assume health as a resource applied to people's lives. They must enlarge their objectives and action focuses, including matters regarding work organization and daily life, subjectivity and quality of life, in order to better respond to the teachers' needs and ways to acknowledge and deal with the health-disease process.
Health promotion; Health education; School health; Voice; Voice quality; Voice disorders