[The execution and design of teaching methodology of scientific investigation in public health]. / O exercício e a construção do ensino da metodologia de investigação científica em saúde coletiva.

The authors present and discuss the development of a discipline of Scientific Research Methodology in Public Health, taught to students of The Nursing Concentration Area in Public Health--from the Nursing Graduation Program of São Paulo University. The discipline was based in the framework of the historical and dialectical materialism.