Investigando a atuação dos profissionais de educação física das equipes do núcleo de apoio à saúde da família de Natal-RN

Abstract

The concept of health has changed along the times, evolving from a model of medical or biological health assistance to the present model of basic attention to health. In Brazil, this new model gains strength with the adoption of the Single Heath System (SUS), confirmed by the 1988 Constitution concerning the topics integrity, equality and universality. The 2006 National Health Policy (PNPS) includes the Corporal Practices and Physical Activities (PCAT) as an area of health promotion. In 2008, this policy helped to insert the professional of physical education in the area of collective health with the aid of teams of Family Health Group (NASF), which started working inside the Units of Family Health (USF). By the way, the work developed by those professionals remains somewhat unclear and under-evaluated. This paper has the objective of describing as the professionals of physical education perform within the NASF teams in the health units in the City of Natal-RN and to organize their methodological actions, as well as to identify the social impact of those actions on their colleagues and on the community. On the other hand, it is a way of knowing better that field of the physical education, still little studied in graduate courses, as well as to emphasize the lack of guidelines underneath that professional knowledge. We used as methodological procedure the descriptive research of qualitative approach and a logbook to field register, in addition to photographs and semistructured interviews, and the data analysis required Bardin’s contents evaluation. Collective health is a health area that offers many kinds of apprenticeship and applicability of knowledge directed to promoting health, prevention and disease recover. The task of the teachers in the NASF teams surpasses the practice of the physical exercise, because it requires a multi-professional and interdisciplinary interaction with the professionals of the other health areas. Results point out that the education professionals have a large action field inside NASF, for they go beyond the corporal practices and physical activity, playing a protagonist role in the promotion of heath and prevention of population disease.