Mobilidade do Fisioterapeuta na União Europeia. O Caso Português. Síntese

Abstract

The migration of qualified people is nowadays a regular subject in the EU. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the following questions: (1) Mobility of physiotherapists exists in EU?; (2) Inside of the problematic previously questioned, how does expresses Portugal?. We decided to restrict the study to EU15, as we analysed the data of the EU site “Regulated Professions Data Base” and realized that there were no data from all of the EU members; however, the 15 first States present it. With our research we conclude that the physiotherapist profession presents a significant mobility in the EU15, although the number of recognition requests is decreasing. The formation level that exists in the majority of Member-States, as in Portugal, suggests that this is not a barrier to mobility. Mobility mostly occurs between neighbour Member-States and between States with language affinities. The analysed data suggest that language is the most important barrier to mobility.