WONCA News

August, 2019

The first consultation meeting of the Primary Health Care Measurement and Improvement Initiative of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region was held in Cairo WHO EMRO regional office. It was great to see WONCA EMR being given equal billing on this initiative with WHO EMRO, UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (which is funding this initiative).

August, 2019

The 88th European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN) meeting was held in Tampere, Finland from 9-12 May 2019. The topic of the meeting was "Research on Multimorbidity in Primary Care".

August, 2019

Desde Iberoamérica hemos desarrollado una herramienta para recopilar todos los materiales que producimos en torno al concepto de Prevención Cuaternaria. Inicialmente, fue desarrollada para ser utilizada en una región. Sin embargo, creemos que es una herramienta versátil y sugerimos aplicarla y utilizarla en todas las regiones de WONCA.

August, 2019

In Iberoamerica we have developed a tool to collect all the materials we are producing on the Quaternary Prevention / Overmedicalization concepts. Initially, it was developed to be used in one region. However, we think it is a versatile tool and we suggest it could be applied and used in all WONCA Regions.

August, 2019

Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Chair, WONCA Working Party on Research writes on activities of the last year.

August, 2019

A WONCA research team, led by Working Party on Research Chair, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, won two of the grants and therefor conducted two of the studies (on organisation and on financing of primary care). Other members of the research team include WONCA past presidents Amanda Howe, Chris van Weel and Michael Kidd.

August, 2019

Shanghai is promoting family medicine and engaging the community in a very local way – inviting doctors to show their clinical skills and medical knowledge on TV.

August, 2019

The WONCA World Rural health conference comes to Albuquerque in October. Please consider taking up our invitation to present your passion at the “Rattlesnake Pit” session on the Assembly Day of the World Rural Health Conference in Albuquerque, October 12th.

August, 2019

On behalf of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), it is my pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr. David Ponka to the role of Director of the Besrour Centre as of September 4, 2019.

August, 2019

You are invited to submit abstracts and proposals for oral and poster presentations and for workshops that are in keeping with the themes of this, the WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference 2020, which is coming to Auckland, New Zealand in April 2020.