RODRIGUES, Luciana Patrício da Costa.
Abstract:
The family health program began in 1994 by the federal government to the municipalities to improve primary health care with the aim of offering assistance to communities where they can count on health promotion, disease prevention and rehabilitation. Therefore, the main objective of this monograph is to demonstrate the importance of inserting the physiotherapist as a multiplying agent in the family health program and as difficulties in including it by labeling the physiotherapist only as a rehabilitating agent, making it impossible for this professional to work with a multidisciplinary team of interdisciplinary way, in the units of the family health program and to highlight as general and specific attributions of these professionals in primary health care. In order to meet the new health policies, changes are required in the training of this professional, who was previously considered only of a rehabilitation nature and which today shows differences,
health promotion and preventive care model. Therefore, a research was carried out with a qualitative approach, on the need to include a physiotherapist in the PSF. Featuring a case report that demonstrates the Need for Inclusion of the Physiotherapist as a multiplying agent in the family health program. The case report was collected at a Clinical School of Physiotherapy in Campina Grande, where a researcher developed from an academic internship during the graduation period of the course, during the same period, several cases of patients who needed continuous monitoring were observed, which could be performed outside the hospital environment. The research was developed
from studies through scientific articles, organizational laws, scientific journals and books in the field of physiotherapy.
