Public health training in public institutions' speech-language-hearing programs in Northeastern Brazil: a curricular framework study.

Purpose: To describe the characteristics of the initial public health training for speech-language-hearing therapists in Northeastern Brazil.

Methods: The research was based on the curricular framework of public higher education institutions in the Northeast. The analysis approached each institution's general speech-language-hearing program data (state where it is located, total course load, and most recent curricular framework reformulation) and specific data on public health courses (their individual course load, the term when it is offered, syllabus content, whether it was theoretical, practical, both, or internship, and whether it was required or elective).