A atuação do médico veterinário em Saúde Pública: histórico, embasamento e atualidade

Resumo (EN)

The veterinary doctor acts as Health professionals using their knowledge in Public Health and Veterinary Medicine Preventive. The objective of this work is to gather in summary a history of Public Health until the present day, creation and insertion of the veterinary doctor as a professional actor in the network of primary care health in Brazil, as well as demonstrate actions that can improve the involvement of this Veterinary service. To do this, we ran the survey in search of scientific articles on the topic that brought conceptualize the important terms and contextualize. The search for these scientific articles that gave through the search for journals and in the database of the Federal Government and studies carried out by other authors. The literature review enabled the understanding of the need for the application of the materials of an interdisciplinary and promote classroom practices with access less late the disciplines of healthcare to im-prove the involvement of this professional along the NASF.