![]() ![]() Work engagement is a ‘positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind, which is assumed to be interconnected with job performance, health and well-being. Workforce well-being and work engagement are considered as powerful ways to improve patient experience. Also in the ‘Human experience in healthcare’ approach of the Beryl Institute, the importance of the workforce is highlighted in addition to patients and the community. ![]() The triple aim includes accepted aims of enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and reducing costs for optimization of the health system performance, and is expanded by adding the goal of improving work life of health providers and advancing health equity. This is also echoed by the transition from the triple aim to the quadruple aim and currently the quintuple aim. Striving to a high quality primary care should therefore take into account working conditions, work engagement and well-being and health of the professionals as well. High quality primary care has to be supported by a good health and social care workforce, collaborating and working under good employment conditions. Strong primary care systems satisfy the curative health needs, health promotion and preventive health needs of the majority of the population and may reduce unnecessary emergency department visits by providing effective referral and discharge systems. Primary care (PC) aims to offer accessible and affordable care to large communities. ![]() Work family balance, proper rewards, and perceived employability were important for primary care professionals’ health, and could provide opportunities to further strengthen the job quality and health of primary care professionals. Nine out of 10 Flemish primary care professionals working in diverse conditions, employment arrangements and organizational settings report good health. Work engagement and all dimensions of employment quality were related to general health, but work family balance, proper rewards, and perceived employability were independently positively related to self-reported health. other organizational settings) were positively related to health. as salaried employee), and in a multidisciplinary group practice (vs. Quality of employment was high, in particular regarding job security and supportive relations with colleagues, while less in terms of proper rewards and job career opportunities. The majority of respondents (90%) reported having a good to very good general health and has a strong work engagement. We performed logistic regression analyses to study the relationship between working conditions and self-reported dichotomized health of primary care professionals (sample size = 1033). Methodsĭata of the cross-sectional ‘Health professionals survey of the Flemish Primary care academy’ of 2020 were examined. Therefore, we examined working conditions, work engagement and health status of professionals active in primary care in Belgium (Flanders), and how these are interrelated. The Quintuple aim explicitly includes ‘health and wellbeing of the care team’ as requirement for the care of patients. ![]()
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