WONCA News

November, 2018

A brief report from Asia Pacific region president, Prof Meng-Chih Lee, (Taiwan) listing the new region executive an goals for the coming biennium.

November, 2018

在接任主席一职时，我向各位承诺了一系列的工作 : 包括继续倡议家庭医学作为实现全民健康覆盖及建设稳固有效卫生系统的动力。但要使基层医疗为人所知及得到认同，进而成为各国卫生系统的支柱，前路漫长，我们仍须努力。

November, 2018

At my inauguration as President I promised, among other things, to continue to advocate for family medicine as essential to achieving Universal Health Coverage and strong cost-effective health systems. The Astana Declaration made it clear that there is still much to be done for professionally qualified primary care teams to be recognised and acknowledged as the backbone of the primary care delivery system in every country.

November, 2018

“Family Doctors are core to the delivery of quality care for older people”: Populations worldwide are ageing, and family doctors must be available and able to play a major role in care in their communities for people as they age. The family doctor should be the primary medical care provider for older people covering the full spectrum of older people’s care from health to end stage frailty, including for those in long term care facilities.

November, 2018

Prof Nobutaro Ban provides more information about the WONCA Asia Pacific region conference coming to Kyoto in May 2019. This includes topics for presentations and discussion. Registration is open as are calls for abstracts for workshops presentations etc.

November, 2018

Read the 2019 WONCA Africa region conference welcome message from new WONCA Africa president Shabir Moosa and find out all conference details. Early Bird registration closes December 31 as does abstract submission.

October, 2018

Three books written by WONCA leaders have been launched in the past month: Family Practice in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Universal Health Coverage and Quality Primary Care; How To Do Primary Care Research: and Primary Health Care around the World: Recommendations for International Policy and Development.

October, 2018

WONCA参予了在哈萨克斯坦阿斯塔纳举行的「全球基层医疗会议」，現任主席、前任主席、候任主席、青年医生运动代表及两位独立常务委员均有出席。我们已检视了《阿斯塔纳宣言》的最终版本。

October, 2018

WONCA was represented at the "Global Conference on Primary Health Care", in Astana, Kazakhstan by the President, Immediate Past President, President- Elect, Young Doctor Movement representative, and two Executive Members-at-large. WONCA notes that the Declaration no longer includes the specific mentioning of family doctors or any other members of the primary healthcare teams. The prior public draft did include different disciplines needed in the Primary Health Care (PHC) team, but these have all been removed in the final version signed by Member States. Wehad hoped and strongly advocated for Family Medicine to be specifically included in the declaration.

October, 2018

Dr Donald Li, a Hong Kong-Chinese family doctor, has taken over the reins as President of WONCA. In addition to his work as a busy family doctor, Dr Li is involved in national and international policy making; he was the first family doctor elected as the President of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine between 2012 – 2016.