https://doi.org/10.7322/abcshs.2021071.1808 Page 1 of 8 Organizational culture of public health services from the perspective of nursing professionals Ana Cláudia Souza Pereira 1 , Luiz Almeida da Silva 2 , Ludmila Grego Maia 1 , Sérgio Valverde Marques dos Santos 3 , Glilciane Morceli 3 , Alexandre de Assis Bueno 2 , Renata Alessandra Evangelista 2 , Maria Alves Barbosa 4 1 Universidade Federal de Jataí (UFJ) – Jataí (GO), Brazil 2 Universidade Federal de Catalão (UFCat) – Catalão (GO), Brazil 3 Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (UEMG) – Passos (MG), Brazil 4 Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) – Goiânia (GO), Brazil How to cite this article: Pereira et al. Organizational culture of public health services from the perspective of nursing professionals. ABCS Health Sci. 2023;48:e023213 https://doi.org/10.7322/ abcshs.2021071.1808 Received: Apr 14, 2021 Revised: Aug 10, 2021 Approved: Aug 23, 2021 Corresponding author: Luiz Almeida da Silva - Universidade Federal de Catalão - Avenida Dr. Lamartine Pinto de Avelar, 1120 – CEP - 75704-020 - Catalão (GO), Brazil - E-mail: enferluiz@yahoo.com.br Declaration of interest: nothing to declare. ORIGINAL ARTICLE Arquivos Brasileiros de Ciências da Saúde A BC S A BCS HEALTH SCIENCES ABSTRACT Introduction: Culture is present in all environments, representing, in general, the ways of thinking, acting, feeling, learning, and sharing by a plurality of people. Objective: Analyze the values and practices that characterize the organizational culture of health services of the public network from the perspective of nursing workers. Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive-analytical, quantitative study was conducted with 156 nursing workers from the public health services of a city in the State of Goias, Brazil. Te Brazilian Instrument for Assessment of Organizational Culture and a sociodemographic and labor characterization questionnaire were used. Te data were analyzed in the STATA program. Results: It was identifed that the female sex was signifcant with the reward and training practices (p=0.050). Te professional nurse category was related to the values of competitive, individualistic, satisfaction, and well-being professionalism (p=0.036 and p=0.041). Income was correlated with cooperative professionalism (p=0.010). Conclusion: Managers of health institutions must promote an adequate work environment, with the use of tools capable of assessing the needs and abilities of subjects. Keywords: Public Health; nursing; organizational culture; occupational health. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License © 2023 The authors INTRODUCTION Culture is present in many diferent social environments, it is part of the customs, beliefs, and values that culturally distinguish an organization based on national culture and work, school, leisure, and family environments 1 . Culture can infuence learning, be- havior, and organizational knowledge sharing. It translates into habits, values, and social representations that are reproduced over time by members of a given group 2,3 . It is also related to the mode of social production at work. It is a component that becomes visible in the way people communicate, dress, and organize themselves at work. It is invisible when it presents itself in subjective processes, such as non-verbal communication, inter- action, confict, and competition 4 . In the context of organizations, understood as micro-societies that are embedded in a social environment, culture is achieved through organizational values, constituting