[Health education and environmental education: an integrated experience].

This paper reports on work with elementary school teachers from different types of Brazilian municipalities, from the coast to the interior and from capitals to small towns. With the larger purpose of facilitating teachers' perception of the identity between environmental education and health education, the study focuses on local issues related to quality of life, as well as local teachers' concepts concerning health and the environment. Finally, the study analyzes the importance of intersectorial cooperative programs facilitating long-term educational projects.