Traditionally, Physical Education has been based on a limited concept of health. Through document research, this work analyzes, in the Pedagogical Project of the Physical Education Course and the National Curriculum Guidelines for the area, the training process linked to working in health and at Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS). The hegemonic theoretical assumptions of the course and the area are detached from SUS principles, underscoring the distance between educational policies in Physical Education and those in the public health field. © 2016, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. All rights reserved.222443458