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ACADEMIA CARIOCA PROGRAM AS A QUALIFIED PRACTICE OF INCLUSION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN FAMILY HEALTH (SMS-RJ)

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Introduction: insufficient presence of disabled people in the Family Health Strategy to the still restricted access of this population despite its ongoing process of geographic and organizational expansion. The the Academia Carioca Program implemented in 2009 by the Municipal Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro as Health Promotion strategy by offering regular physical activity guided by physical education professional, integrated lines of health care, to map the territory Family Clinic Ana Maria Conceição dos Santos Correia (AP 3.3), according to the Program of action protocol, noted the absence of actions to integrate people with disabilities to drive and its services. Objective: To analyze the inclusion of a physical activity adapted with the participation of disabled persons in a Family Clinic, its effects in the routine of professionals Family Health and community where they live. Method: 16 participants were collected data allowing a qualitative assessment of processes through document analysis and systematic observation of living with them as they participated in activities and daily life of the Unit. Results and Conclusion: There was greater access to people with disabilities at the Health Unit, professionals declared themselves more familiar with the theme, the interpersonal report of improvement with the family, school and community environment (besides the development of motor aspects and cognitive). Thus, the inclusion of people with disabilities in the public health service was instrumental in breaking socio-cultural paradigms and qualification of access and host of the Family Health, impacting positively on the lives of people with disabilities and their families must be multiplied to other units.