%0 Journal Article %T Analysis of a didactical situation: comprehension of the health-disease process %A M¨¢rcia Regina Pfuetzenreiter %A Jos¨¦ Francisco Cust¨®dio %A Raica Koepsel %J Investiga£¿£¿es em Ensino de Ci¨ºncias %D 2003 %I Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul %X The work describes a didactic situation that took place in the discipline of " Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Public Health" in a course of Veterinary Medicine, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The didactic situation examined the students' representation on health and disease seeking the development of a model to explain the phenomenon as a dynamic process. The situation was analyzed under the perspective of the objective-obstacle concept that was shown appropriate as a tool of interpretation of the process of understanding of the phenomenon health-disease for the students. %K didactical situation %K objective-obstacle %K health %K disease %U http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID103/v8_n2_a2003.pdf