The National Curriculum Guidelines (NCG) for the courses on health recommend the teaching of health promotion in order to adapt curricula to the National Health System (NHS). The aim of this study was to characterize the teaching of health promotion in courses on speech-language therapy in the city of São Paulo, identifying its curricular insertion, educational strategies and changes offered by the NCG. Data collection consisted of documental review of teaching plans and interviews with coordinators of speech-language therapy courses. Data obtained from the teaching plans were systematized considering the name, curricular integration, teaching time, goals, content and teaching strategies. The nuclei that guided the thematic analysis of the interviews were conceptions and curriculum changes. Health promotion is taught in subjects with traditional practices and during internship, in different performance settings. In the coordinators' point of view, health promotion teaching is relevant for the insertion of a speech therapist in the NHS, although it is necessary to increase the number of experienced teachers in the public health area.
speech-language therapy; health promotion; higher education; teaching
