WONCA and WHO News

November, 2013

WONCA EMR Executive Members received a formal invitation to attend the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean 60th Session.

October, 2013

World Mental Health Day took place on 10th October. Three days prior to this during the annual Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Forum which brings together the WHO Secretariat, member states and international partners, the WHO launched its Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020.

October, 2013

Report of the Sixty Sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South Asia Region

September, 2013

Health 2020 is a policy framework aimed at providing European politicians and policy-makers key strategic advice to support action for improving health, well-being and health equity, in a way that is sensitive to each country’s situation, political and organisational circumstances.

September, 2013

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) want to hear about your experiences providing primary care health services.

September, 2013

The new PAHO/WHO report, Innovative care for chronic conditions: Organizing and delivering high quality care for chronic noncommunicable diseases in the Americas, proposes an integrated Chronic Care Model for addressing NCDs in the context of primary health care

July, 2013

A survey has been developed to incorporate the perspectives of health care providers in this WHO rerpot to be released in 2014.

November, 2012

The PMNCH 2012 Report - Analysing Progress on Commitments to the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health reviews progress on commitments made by 220 stakeholders to the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health.

June, 2012

The meeting, held May 7 and 8, brought together members of the CARMEN (Set of Actions for the Multisectoral Reduction of Non-communicable Diseases) network to discuss how to transform the declaration signed at last year's United Nations High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases into policies, programs, and concrete actions.

June, 2012

Expertos de la región acuerdan acciones ultisectoriales para combatir enfermedades no transmisibles