WONCA News

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.

September, 2017

Uno de los privilegios más maravillosos de estar en esta posición como Presidenta de WONCA es el de poder conocer a muchos colegas en todo el mundo que están comprometidos con la Medicina de Familia y sus especialistas en todos los estadios y ámbitos.

September, 2017

Ruth Wilson (Canada) and Amanda Howe (UK) write: the terms "primary care" and "primary health care" are often used loosely, and there is a need to define and characterise good primary care. Here are eight principles of primary care, recently endorsed by many primary care and family medicine organizations in North America, for consideration.

September, 2017

El Documento; La Atención Primaria como Fundamento para el Fortalecimiento de los Sistemas de Salud en los países en vías de desarrollo (1). ¿Es adecuada la asistencia sanitaria en Atención Primaria a la hora de garantizar el acceso a la salud, ofrecer protección contra un gasto excesivo y asegurar un uso equitativo de los recursos?

September, 2017

The WONCA Working Party for Women & Family Medicine (WWPWFM) was involved in various activities recently and the wokring party executive would like to share a summary report. It is going to be an exciting one-year preparing for Seoul, October 2018. Please come share your ideas and tell your stories of the wonderful work we all do for our patients and communities, and the challenges we face.

September, 2017

The 67th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe was held in Budapest on 10th - 14th September 2017. WONCA Europe has released a statement on Family Medicine, focusing on the educational needs (both undergraduate and postgraduate) and the policies for retaining and, when necessary, supporting the migration and emigration of family doctors. The statement was delivered by Dr Anna Stavdal, President of WONCA Europe.

September, 2017

The launching of WONCA Rural Africa (WoRA) took place as scheduled during the 5th Joint WONCA Africa conference / South Africa Academy of Family Physicians in Pretoria, South Africa, on Friday 18th August 2017.