Fisioterapia e a atenção primária à saúde no Brasil: artigo de revisão

Abstract

Introduction: Most brazilians have one or more risk factors to diseases by the daily lifestyle they carry. There’s substantial evidence in the literature to support Primary Health Care Interventions, in order to prevent these problems. Objectives: To look for Physiotherapy incentives directed to Primary Health Attention, registered in the last 10 years, that brought direct or indirect benefits to the brazilian population, from a Literature Systematic Review. Methods: A systematic literature review was used, in the BIREME data basis, collecting registered data from 2000 to 2010. Results: After the abstract reading, were excluded 92, 8% of them, established by the 1º Relevancy Test achieving 7, 22% of the total abstracts found. The 2º Relevancy Test achieved 58, 53% from the 1º Relevancy Test abstracts, resulting on 4, 23% of all 1136 abstracts found for the data synthesis. Conclusions: An effective planning of physiotherapy approaches on the population can only be possible through the knowledge of their general health status, and this can be a future solutions parameter for achieving more expressive results on the attendance of the population.