Body practices and the intervention of the Physical Education professional in the Unified Health System: analysis of a region in the state of Rio Grande do Sul

Was aimed in this research to map and to analyze the intervention of the Physical Educa-tion professional (PEF) who works in the SUS in the municipalities of the Macro-regions Missioneira and North of Rio Grande do Sul. A questionnaire was applied to 52 managers and health professio-nals. It was evident that most municipalities offer body practices for the population, but the absence of PEF, the low periodicity of the groups and the target audience having a low presence of the gene-ral population result in negative points. As for the perception of health managers and professionals about the PEF, it was noticed that although they report that health is a biopsychosocial well-being, when explaining this concept, they relate health as the absence of diseases. Most PEF did not have in their initial training contents related to public health, which makes it difficult to work in these health places.