WONCA News

October, 2017

Professor Michael Kidd AM (left), WONCA Immediate Past President and Professor Gabriel Ivbijaro MBE (right), a former chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health have been awarded honorary membership of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA).

October, 2017

WONCA's Special Interest Group on Health Equity chaired by William Wong has released its September newsletter.

October, 2017

Early bird registration ends November 8th and abstract submission is now open for the WONCA World Rural health conference coming to New Delhi in April 2018. Anyone can submit their abstract paper in various categories.

October, 2017

Building on the launch of the Global Patient Safety Challenge “Medication Without Harm”, WHO has developed a campaign to increase public awareness of the safety issues related to medication use and the need for safer medication practices. The call for action of the global campaign is “KNOW. CHECK. ASK.”

October, 2017

Ruth Wilson con Amanda Howe: Aquí hay ocho principios de la Atención Primaria que recientemente se han enviado a muchas organizaciones médicas de Atención Primaria y Medicina de Familia en Norte América para su consideración.

October, 2017

L’un des plus grands privilèges du poste de directrice de WONCA est que je rencontre, autour du monde, de nombreux collègues qui se consacrent à la médecine familiale à tous niveaux.

October, 2017

One of the wonderful privileges of being a WONCA leader is seeing the many colleagues worldwide who are committed to family medicine in all its stages and settings. The very successful regional Africa conference in Pretoria celebrated progress in our most challenged region, including presentations from countries such as Malawi and Ethiopia who are at the earliest stages of family medicine development.

October, 2017

This month I thought it would be useful to remind members about the various WONCA publications, many of which are freely available via the WONCA website, and especially to highlight recent and forthcoming WONCA publications and some key WONCA documents.

September, 2017

WONCA's East Mediterranean region (EMR) delegate conducted a meeting with WHO EMRO Regional Director and his team in Cairo, Egypt.The participants agreed about the importance of collaborative work among WHO and WONCA to reorient towards Universal Health Care, and bring family medicine as a vehicle, conducting national workshops will help countries to develop national action plans to scale up family practice working in two parallel paths - the fast track and the long term plans taking into consideration, approaching universities and higher education ministries.

September, 2017

We welcome WONCA members from all regions of the world to join us for the 6th annual Besrour Forum on Tue Nov 7th, 2017 in Montreal, Canada! This year’s theme is Leading the way to Universal Health Coverage through Family Medicine: Skills for Success.