WONCA News

March, 2016

Who are the speakers for WONCA Rio? Many concepts and topics related to the development of family medicine will be discussed, such as quaternary prevention, "overdiagnosis", electronic health records, management of common health problems, quality assessment, the pre-test probability, system management of health and organization, etc

March, 2016

The Indian Association of Occupational Health has just published a book, titled "Basic Occupational Health Service for Informal Industry: Manual for Primary Care Providers". The book is edited by well-known WONCA leader, Dr Ramnik Parekh and Dr Suvarna Moti.

March, 2016

This month the CEO anticipates his coming attendance at a number of WONCA conferences and meetings. He also reminds us that World Family Doctor Day comes on May 19 and it certainly time to start planning activities. This year's suggested theme is smoking cessation and there are a number of resources available.

March, 2016

What is your Member Organization planning will this year's World Family Doctor Day? This year we’d especially like to highlight smoking cessation. Read more here.

March, 2016

Ulrika Sandén is a social worker pursuing doctoral research of cancer processes at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre, Lund University, Sweden - meet her in Copenhagen! Remember: final deadline for very late abstracts is 31 March

March, 2016

The Bangladesh Academy of Family Physicians reports on recent activities including the annual conference, the WONCA South Asia Region conference held recently in Colombo, the Academy CME programs, the family medicine diploma course and finally the coming WONCA world conference in Rio.

March, 2016

Dr Enrique Falceto de Barros, Pro-Tem Chair WONCA Working Party on the Environment, message to members of the working party encouraging their participation in the WONCA World conference coming to Rio in November this year.

March, 2016

Esta fue mi octava visita a la República Popular de la China desde que me convertí en Presidente de WONCA en mayo de 2013. WONCA tiene una larga historia de apoyo a los colegas chinos en el desarrollo de la Medicina Familiar, anterior del trabajo que empezó en los años ochenta por parte del anterior Presidente de WONCA, el Doctor Peter Lee, de Hong Kong.

March, 2016

C'était ma 8ème visite en République populaire de Chine depuis ma nomination à la présidence de WONCA en mai 2013. WONCA s'est forgé une longue histoire dans le soutien des collègues de Chine en ce qui concerne le développement de la médecine familiale, depuis le travail débuté dans les années 80 par l'ancien président de WONCA, Dr Peter Lee de Hong Kong.

March, 2016

On 25 February 2016, an exciting event occurred in Malawi, the launch of postgraduate family medicine training. Malawi is a landlocked country of about 17 million people in Southern Africa, one of the least developed nations in the world, but known as the warm heart of Africa.