Abstract
This article sought to report the experience of students from the 5th semester of the undergraduate course in Nursing, Physiotherapy and Nutrition on the importance of the health education process as a way of valuing health, through a descriptive study, type of experience report, elaborated in the context of the extracurricular internship in a basic health unit. Health education can be considered one of the main health promotion actions, since it is of paramount importance both in the prevention and rehabilitation of diseases, in addition to awakening citizenship, personal and social responsibility, as well as the formation of multipliers and caregivers. . In this way, health education has become a complex process that, by uniting a set of diverse knowledge and practices, seeks to provide people with the highest level of health. This concept, however, is the result of a slow process that has followed the political and economic changes in Brazil over the years.