[Profile of health professionals from Lleida regarding health education].

Objective: To know the health professional profile in the province of Lleida with regard to health education.

Design: Observational transversal study.

Setting: All the medicine, nursery and social work colleges in the province of Lleida (3060).

Participants: Bachelors in medicine (208), graduates in nursery (252), graduates in social work (64).

Intervention: A postal survey was send to the private address. The questions were about personal and job characteristics related to activities in health education.

Results: The response percentage was 48.1%. The association between the training in health education (28.2%-39.8%) and the realization of activities in health education (44.6%-57%) is significant. The realization of activities in health education is also associated with the resources disposition (CC = 0.3177, p < 0.01), and the job place (CC = 0.3155, p < 0.01).

Conclusions: The assistance to health education courses and the adequacy of resources suppose better participation in activities related to health education.