Abstract

DA SILVA, RUDNEY et al. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ABOUT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH OF THE POLICE OFFICER. rev.fac.med [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.1, pp.75-85. ISSN 0121-5256.

This study was aimed to analyze, based on national and international scientific literature, the studies on physical activity and health in Police officers published in the last five years, indexed in MEDLINE and SCIELO databases. Searches in data indexed in PUBMED and BIREME databases, available between 2007 and 2012 period were carried out. The search considered the key words "physical activity", "health" and "police" as well as their related and even in Portuguese, Spanish and English. We reviewed 24 articles that dealt with the descriptors adopted and that met criteria for inclusion and exclusion. So, we can conclude that there is a lack of national publications, mainly on physical activity for police officers. It can be concluded that studies, both national and international, are predominantly no experimental, related to physical and mental health, mainly pertaining to stress, and mostly adopting qualitative (national) and quantitative (international) approaches.

Keywords : Physical activity; health; police officers.

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