Professional skills for health promotion in caring for tuberculosis patients.

Objectives: to understand the health promotion skills found in the speeches of health practitioners in care for TB patients.

Methods: qualitative study, developed with seven practitioners involved in care for TB patients, identified from a sociocentric approach, whose speeches were submitted to analysis based on the health promotion skills model in the Galway Consensus.

Results: there were four domains: Catalyzing change; Leadership; Planning; and Partnerships.