WONCA News

November, 2018

Domingo Orozco-Beltrán, WONCA Special Interest Group on NCDs convener, reports on the General Meeting of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (GCM/NCD) held in Geneva, 5-6 November 2018.

November, 2018

Presented in Korea were the WONCA Global awards - Honorary Life Membership, WONCA Fellowship, WONCA five star doctor and the Taiwan Family Medicine research award.

November, 2018

Garth Manning reports on the WONCA World Council meeting held In Korea in association with our recent World conference : With a meeting of the WONCA Executive, a WONCA Council and then a brilliant WONCA conference in Seoul It has been an incredibly busy time. He reports on election results, statements approved, other highlights and various presentations.

November, 2018

Alan Abelsohn, past chair of WONCA Working Party on the Environment (WPEnv) reports: Alice McGushin (Vice Chair WPEnv) and I attended the first WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health, in Geneva, on 30 October-1 November 2018. ​

November, 2018

Dr Jane Frances Namatovu, conference convener reports:​ Plans are well underway for the 2019 WONCA Africa Regional Conference coming to Uganda in June. Our website is regularly being upgraded for more information and contact us by email at [email protected] if you are challenged.

November, 2018

Prof Val Wass​ OBE, Chair WONCA Working Party on Education, on this month's free access article and her own editorial.

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.