Ações educativas do educador físico para a promoção da saúde

Abstract

With the creation of Ordinance No. 154 of January 24, 2008 Physical Education and appreciated expanded its field of action, and with this the professionals in this area became part of the Centers of Support for Family Health (NASF). This study aims to identify educational activities developed by the physical educator in health promotion. Methodologically is a qualitative study, in which the strategy was the integrative review. Have consulted the publications of the Virtual Health Library, CAPES Periodicals, LILACS, Scielo and GOOGLE and were selected twelve scientific productions. The educational activities developed by the Physical Educator found were counseling, encouraging popular claim on the creation of leisure and physical activity, lectures, monitoring, preparation of a program of supervised exercises, encouraging sports practice and overcoming competitivismo. It is clear that the educational activities developed during the performance of the Physical Educator can be interesting aiming at health promotion. Faced with raised productions, one can show that there is little research and articles showing the educational activities to be developed by the Physical Educator focusing on health promotion, as well as its performance and effectiveness of these actions; Furthermore, expanded discussion of academic and vocational training to provide the training and sensitization of students to work in physical education and health promotion. It is observed then that physical education has a playing field constantly growing with the appreciation of health promotion and the reformulation of the undergraduate curriculum.