Health management overcomes

social or economic issues and resurges as a

union of knowledge acquired in the daily life

of health workers, so that the collaboration of

the physiotherapist not only covers repairing

nature, but also collaborates in functional health

and quality of life with preventive actions.

This study aimed to present the main findings

of the literature and to discuss public health

management, its applicability, goals and deficits,

especially regarding the physiotherapy service

in government programs, such as the Family

Health Program. The study is characterized as

a bibliographical review and for its elaboration a

survey was carried out in the scientific base of

electronic data, the indexers used were: “Health

Management”, “Unified Health System (SUS)”,

“Family Health Program “And” Physiotherapy

“. Through retrospective review of the literature

the results demonstrate discrepant values for

each descriptor. The values were presented

in a way that, with the first index, “Health

Management”, 751 papers were found at the

Lilacs Base, among which articles, monographs,

dissertations and book reviews were excluded.

From the association of the second single term,

“Unified Health System”, there was a regression

for 116 articles and, subsequently, with the

other indexers, the database did not accuse the

presence of studies. From these surveys, we

found a panorama that evidenced the scarcity in

the current and previous literature, concerning

the indexers already mentioned, allowing us to

suggest the increase of researches and debates

on the subject and making possible the improvement in the public health service.