Health Professional Mobility Effects on Professional Development, Job Satisfaction and Empowerment

• Published in: Health science journal 2020-05, Vol.14 (2), p.1-6
• Main Author: Pereira, Almeida
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Access to information; Career development planning; Collaboration; Creativity; Empowerment; Health services; Job satisfaction; Medical personnel; Nurses; Occupational mobility; Physicians; Professional development; Retention; Social networks; Training; Work environment
• ISSN: 1791-809X; 1791-809X
• DOI: 10.36648/1791-809X.14.2.699

Keywords: Human serum albumin (HSA); Neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn); Drug conjugate, Binding site, Drug delivery Received: December 09, 2019, Accepted: January 24, 2020, Published: January 30, 2020 Introduction Health professionals are a fundamental part of health systems, actors without whom health care provision and medical care would not be possible: "Health workers are the core of health systems: without health workers there is no health care". Development, training and empowerment of Human Health Resources (HRH) is one of the objectives of the "Sustainable Development Goals", promoted by the WHO "Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030" and include the improvement of education, training and development opportunities, promoting the inter-sectorial development, as a way of contributing to quality of health services and health outcomes (WHO). Other motives, also found in literature, concern the work environment, organizational quality and culture, or the characteristics the profession, like the occupational risks, overtime work, unbalanced professional-to-family life, physical and psychological stress, or unsatisfactory quality of job management, with consequent adverse effects on recruitment, retention, production, performance, and healthcare outcomes. On this matter, Kanter sustained that "structural empowerment is associated with higher levels of job satisfaction, lower levels of stress, higher professional commitment and efficacy, contributing to better skills development and HRH retention; The WHO sustains the creation of "positive practice environments", with the promotion of professionals well-being, security, motivation, increasing productivity, performance and quality of care provided, as a way of contributing to organizational quality, teamwork, collaboration and job satisfaction, as well as the implementation of safe working practices, by managers, employers, regulatory bodies, professional organizations and education institutions.