ABSTRACT
This essay aims to reflect on the importance of public health in the context of training in the field of physical education, the relations with social demands, the expansion of perspectives of physical education in the health field, and the role of curricula in this process. It is structured in four sections: in the first, the historical paths, the area of physical education and health training were contextualized; in the second one, the displacements that physical education needs to make towards the field of public health and the Unified Health System (SUS) were discussed; the third one questions the relationship between curriculum, university and social reproduction that can occur when the knowledge and practices of public health are uncritically inserted; and, finally, the fourth and last section presents brief final considerations in order to point out some directions on training in this area.
Keywords:
Physical education; Public health; Unified Health System; Teaching