A fisioterapia na atenção primária de saúde: uma revisão bibliográfica sobre sua inserção e possibilidades na saúde pública

Abstract

From the 90's through the 1988 Federal Constitution and regulations of the Unified Health System (SUS), educational institutions and representative related to physical therapy, a process encouraged participation of professionals in public health. They had the intention to start, develop new policies for investment, ensuring a space that level of attention, and help in adapting curriculum to the Curriculum Guidelines and the multiprofessional participation. In this context, the article discusses the role of physiotherapist in primary health care as well as their integration and possibilities in public health. The objective is to make a presentation on the insertion of a physiotherapist in primary health care as well as reveal the possibilities of action on public health in the last six years (2005-2011). The methodology used in this study is exploratory because it is performed in an bibliographic database of the Virtual Health Library (VHL). The online survey was conducted in the second half of 2011, and its temporal delimitation the period 2005 to 2011. The online search was conducted by the integrated method of research using the following descriptors together, "physiotherapy" and "SUS" and "PSF" and the other search words "physiotherapy" and "public health" and "SUS". We found a total of six articles in the two searches, one being identical to one found in first search, among them were working with five articles, which were related to the theme. The data were grouped into the following categories: cross-sectional survey with quantitative and qualitative approach; type research debate, qualitative case study, a qualitative study as applied to social sciences research methodology without identification. The study highlights the low number of publications on the subject. Therefore, it is the physiotherapist participate effectively in theoretical and methodological discussions, and also professional experiences designed to build new practices and knowledge about the performance of professional public health.