Projects
WP on the Environment Statement to Protect Health
Signatory to the Doha Declaration on Climate, Health and Wellbeing
“Family Doctors in the Field - stories from environmental family doctors from across the globe”
Grant Blashki, Alan Abelsohn, Margot Parkes and Karen Flegg are delighted to announce our upcoming book, "Family Doctors in the Field -Stories from environmental family doctors from across the globe", which is to be launched at the WONCA Europe conference in Lisbon, in July 2014. The aim of the book is to profile ordinary family doctors around the world who are interested or involved in environmental issues. Launch of Family Doctors in the Field
Greening the doctors’ office/ clinic
We plan to develop a guide to “greening the doctors’ office” for distribution through WONCA, and national colleges. We can use existing materials, including those from the Doctors for the Environment Australia and the Ontario College of Family Physicians. Alan Abelsohn discussed this, in Mumbai.
Climate change and health; The role of the family doctor
We plan to develop a user-friendly PowerPoint presentation, with speaker notes and references that can be used by colleagues in WONCA and beyond. We will develop a network of interested family doctors, in collaboration with other climate change and health medical groups.
Patients views on GP’s promoting Sustainability
Funded by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, this s a study of patients’ views on the promotion of sustainability priniciples by GPs. It will be undertaken during 2012, in Australia, and it is hoped that the study will also be piloted in Canada.
Meetings attended and conducted
Grant Blashki held a very successful conference in Melbourne in October, on Creating Healthy Sustainable Societies. Alan Abelsohn is running a series of workshops on climate change and the family doctor in Canada, at national and provincial family medicine conferences, and gave a plenary on climate change and health at WONCA SAR 2011, in Mumbai.
Diagnostic imaging and radiation safety
Endorsed WONCA policy: Justification and appropriateness in radiological diagnostics 2016
Occupational health
Ezequiel Lopez is now chairing the WONCA SIG on Workers Health
Research
Our survey on the attitudes of family doctors towards climate change has been completed. The survey results will be analyzed and written up for publication. The group working on this are Grant Blashki and Claudio Villella (Australia) as leads, Gerald Koh Choon Huat (Singapore) and Alan Abelsohn (Canada).