Rural Practice

April, 2014

John Wynn- Jones reports on the 12th World Rural Health Conference, held recently in Gramado, Brazil

April, 2014

The WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice Award for Outstanding Service to Rural Practice presented to Dr Bruce Chater, of Queensland, Australia, at the WONCA World Rural Health Conference, Gramado, Brazil, April 2014

April, 2014

The WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice launches its "Rural Medical Education Guidebook" in Gramado, Brazil on Saturday April 5.

March, 2014

Dr José Lopez-Albuin, President or EURIPA writes this month's rural round-up

March, 2014

John Wynn-Jones reports on his attendance at the Prince Mahidol conference in Thailand and the lessons learnt.

January, 2014

Rural communities in the 21st Century need to build resilience and as health providers we can be powerful contributors to that work.

December, 2013

Prof Ian Couper of South Africa and Past President WONCA Working Party on Rural Health writes this month's Rural Round-up.

October, 2013

Aileen Espina from the Philippines is a rural family doctor and member of two WONCA working parties. She writes this month's rural round-up

October, 2013

The 12th WONCA Rural Health conference is now being held from April 2-6, 2014. The venue remains Gramado, Brazil.

September, 2013

Much is often made of the poorer health status and standard of living in rural areas – this is true and desperately so in some places but with the provision of public health, good generalist health care and extra job opportunities, rural areas can be wonderful places to live