The difficulties existing in the work process in Health require constant Permanent Health Education (PHE) actions that respond to the needs of developing competencies for the improvement of work processes. However, the large investment in educational actions brings with it the need to analyze the effects produced and the contribution of HPS to changes in the professional profile, in professional practices, or if it was able, even if indirectly, to impact institutional and health indicators. In this sense, it is important that evaluation processes are developed as part of the educational action. This study aims to: Evaluate a HPS action, in the modality of a Specialization Course, through the methodological strategy based on levels and in depth. It is characterized as a case study, quali-quantitative in nature. Having as participants the 31 egresses of the Specialization Course in Public Health (CESP) - 1st class, developed by the Bahia School of Public Health. The construction of the questionnaires considered the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes (KHAS) related to the course objectives presented in the pedagogical project. The results showed the contribution of the course for the exercise of functions in management, action planning, coordination of processes and services and implementation of projects, as well as qualitative performance of attitudinal aspects; as for the organizational, psychosocial and material support indicated the perception of little support, highlighting the need for the development of organizational support strategies, aiming to foster higher levels of effects of the course, because the intervention projects were not implemented. It is concluded that the course contributed to behavioral change in the position and it was also identified specific effects related to the development of technical products such as protocols, operating procedures and manuals, care flows in the services, in addition to the production of knowledge, such as experience reports and socialization of learning in technical team meetings.