“…According to Decree-Law nº 81/2009, of April 2, "in each Health Center Group (HCG) or, with the necessary adaptations, in each local health unit, there is a Public Health Unit (PHU), which has organizational and technical autonomy" (p. 2060). In these units, the specialist nurse in community and public health nursing, integrated in multidisciplinary teams, is responsible for collaborating in the elaboration of information, public health plans, epidemiological surveillance, monitoring of the population's health status, diagnosis, elaboration of the local health plan; and propose interventions to reduce problems, or reinforce health gains (11) . In other words, this is the field in which the specialist nurse in community and public health nursing implements his competences, through his interventions.…”