Care With the Body and Playful Activities in the Family Health Units

Abstract

This article presents resulted of a research of 2007/2008 financed by the CNPq and that it generated a project of research financed for the Net CEDES of the Ministry of Sport approved in 2008. The objective of this explorer study was to carry through the mapping of the developed playful activities next to the users of the Family Health Units of the city of Natal in the Rio Grande do Norte. Interviews with the managers of the units had been carried through, beyond comments and registers of the playful activities, as well as interviews with the users, intending to catch its perceptions and necessities. Ahead of the gotten information, one standed out it importance of a systematic planning and magnifying of the playful activities, being recognized its multiple contributions for the health and was strengthened, over all, the necessity of the insertion of a professional enabled to the planning and execution of these activities.