WONCA News

March, 2018

Amanda Howe writes: At present, the big discussion at the World Health Organization is about Universal Health Coverage (UHC) - but we also need to say what we expect this to mean in practice.

March, 2018

En este momento, el gran debate en la Organización Mundial de la Salud gira entorno a la Cobertura Sanitaria Universal – aunque debemos añadir qué es lo que esperamos que esto signifique a nivel práctico. Entre las dimensiones de la universalidad debemos considerar:

March, 2018

J’ai assisté à deux conférences régionales -le congrès de la région Méditerranée orientale au Koweït, le sommet ibero-americain et la conférence en Colombie- je me suis aussi rendue en Algérie pour assister à un sommet de haut niveau organisé par l’organisation membre du pays. A Koweït-city, j’ai visité la clinique Al-Yamouk

March, 2018

​Dr Veronika Rasic is a GP trainee and co-chair of Rural Seeds, a group of young doctors and medical students with an interest in rural practice. Veronica recently authored a blog entry on the Transformative Education for Health Professionals. The subject of the blog entry is “Connecting Future Rural Healthcare Workers with Rural Communities”

March, 2018

Rob Dijkstra, President of the Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG) has recently been interviewed by Pere Vilanova from the Spanish Society of GPs (semFYC). “We can help patients to make right decisions by empowering them, I believe then it’s when we are really helping society”

March, 2018

Prof Young Sik Kim, who is this month’s featured doctor says a few words about the coming WONCA 2018 World conference. Early bird registration ends March 31, but you can still get a bonus transport card.

March, 2018

I have been to two regional conferences – the East Mediterranean Region congress, in Kuwait, and the IberoAmericana cumbre and conference, in Columbia - as well as visiting Algeria to attend a high level summit organised by the local member organisation. In Kuwait City, I visited the Al-Yamouk Clinic

March, 2018

The Taiwan Family Medicine Research Award (TFMRA) was established by the Chinese Taipei Association of Family Medicine in 2008. It will support three junior family physicians to attend the WONCA World Conference and applications are welcome from all WONCA regions.

March, 2018

As a new initiative, WONCA's Young Doctors' representative on World Executive, Ana Nunes Barata (Portugal), is coordinating regular news from our seven region Young Doctors' Movements. Not every region's movement will always provide news. This is the second of these newsletters.

March, 2018

La Doctora María-Pilar Astier-Peña, presidenta del Grupo de Trabajo de WONCA World de Calidad y Seguridad WONCA Working Party on Quality and Safety participó en una reunión de expertos sobre “acción temprana para apoyar la implementación del tercer reto mundial de seguridad del paciente de la Organización Mundial de la Salud” “Medicación Sin Daño” (#MWH Pride).