title: [Nursing in transmissible diseases: how to approach this topic in nursing graduation?].
abstract: This study relates the attempts of the discipline Collective Health Nursing with focus in transmissible diseases to reorganize its teaching object, its theoretical and practical content, and its pedagogical atrategics, as a contribution to the formation of a nursing professional compromised with Collective Health. It describes 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 proposed goal.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo (EEUSP). lislaine@usp.br
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Fracolli
authors.forename: L Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Nichiata
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Gryschek
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000451:nursing*; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D012579:Schools, Nursing