O fisioterapeuta na estratégia de saúde da família: da formação universitária à prática

Abstract

This study consists of an analysis and discussion of the inclusion of physiotherapist services in primary care, particularly in the Family Health Strategy in respect to university education. Initially there was performed a reflexive construction on the history and evolution of physiotherapy followed by the formation and evolution of the physiotherapy courses in Brazil, contextualizing aspects of the expansion of education, field of expertise, professional profile, assignments physiotherapist within the Health Strategy Family as well as the challenges that the physical therapist finds in primary health. Taking as reference the primary care model, becomes evident the need to overcome the rehabilitation as the only level of professional performance, presenting the model of collective physiotherapy as a role instrument of the physiotherapist in primary care. Therefore need to outweigh the adopted formation model is still the curative-rehabilitative inappropriate to the new epidemiological reality, since the current model health requires professional full humanistic education vision and a current concept of health and assistance. Finally, we demonstrate that increasing the number of courses does not result in greater access of the population to physiotherapy assistance and that the decision to create new courses should be based on social indicators and start from the social demand, considering the contributions and changes that each new course can have on improving the social and epidemiological reality of each region.