THE PROJECT ORIENTATION PRACTICE PHYSICAL EXERCISES IN ILHÉUS – (OPPEI): EXPERIENCE IN PROMOTING HEALTH

Abstract

Currently in Brazil practices corporal / physical activities have been primarily used as a strategy for health promotion. For both public sectors, WHO's and universities become partners in promoting population health. Not unlike this proposal has the action in Ilhéus extension called oriented physical exercise (OPPEI) that aims to guide, encourage regular practice and proper exercise, besides providing its practitioners (indirectly) to combat sedentary lifestyle, assist in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases not transmitted. The methods used in the project include data collection as: medical history, anthropometric measurements, questionnaire International "Physical Activity Questionnaire" (IPAQ), along with guidelines on free exercise equipment in module outdoor fitness, walking, stretching, aerobics; step gym and gym located at least three times a week with 50-minute lessons. The Statistical Package obey the computerized Statistical Package for the Social Science. As the project is in progress and not all data were analyzed in this article the results presented here now allows us to infer that the profile of the participants and the proposed objective we are operating under the principles of prevention, health promotion and improved quality of life.