Educação Física Escolar eEducação para a Saúde / School Physical Education and Education for Health

ABSTRACT

The work here presented has the objective of clarifying thehole that the Physical Education, as a global educativeprocess, may have in the promotion and prevention of thepopulation’s health. The work is structured in three partswith the following approaches the first part presents theconception of the author about Physical Education, its hole inschool and the various orientations and conceptions acceptedthroughout time. The second moment is dedicated toexplanation and clarification of a view in health at amultidisciplinary dimension beyond the presentation of someof the current problems related to health, notedly those withgreater affinity to physical activities. The third and last partof the work presents the possible relations between theHealth and Physical Education dimensions; thus emphasizingthe potentialities of those as integrating the activitiescompound which integrate the health professions, givingprivilege to its occurrence in the space and in the “school”institution...