WONCA News

January, 2016

Call for contributions! – short survey with a short deadline (15 February)! You can help WHO to better understand people’s needs and values about UHC. Your contribution, by completing this short survey of four questions, will offer new insights into how health systems can be more responsive, accessible and of high-quality in your context.

January, 2016

Dr Tran Trong Thong is a family doctor in the rural region of Soc Sun in Vietnam, north of the capital city of Hanoi. The Soc Sun Commune Health Station, where Dr Tran works, provides both curative and preventive care services to a dispersed rural community of 20,000 people. Dr Tran leads a primary health care team, which includes nurses, midwives, assistant doctors and a pharmacist..

January, 2016

John Wynn-Jones write: On behalf of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice (WWPRP), I wish you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year. We are coming to the end of our latest triennium and it’s a good time to reflect on what we have achieved and what we need to do in the next three years.

January, 2016

All governments have to decide how to meet the needs of their peoples, and most political elections are based on different beliefs as to how this can best be done. Fundamental issues about how to finance investment for health care and other public sectors require clear thinking and recurrent review of decisions made.

January, 2016

WONCA Europe comes to Copenhagen - June 15-18, 2016 - Please note that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended until 5 February 2016

January, 2016

The European Association of Communication in Healthcare (EACH) is delighted to have become an Organization in Collaborative Relations with WONCA.

January, 2016

Hello again, from the WONCA Special Interest Group (SIG) on Health Equity. The health equity group is still bustling with activity writes convenor William Wong.

December, 2015

Uno de los aspectos más desgarradores de las fotos de los refugiados es el hecho de ver a niños pequeños arrastrándose a través de los desiertos, empujados a los botes o a través de las líneas de control policial. Cualquier familia puede ser víctima de una tragedia, pero los niños de las familias más humildes siempre tienen un mayor número de factores en contra.

December, 2015

This month the WONCA CEO reflects on two WHO meetings that he has been to recently (on cardiovascular disease and ageing & health respectively) as well as next year's WONCA conferences. Finally, at the end of the year, seasons greetings are extended to all colleagues

December, 2015

A one-day workshop on Research in Primary Health Care was organised by a joint collaboration between the European General Practice Research Network and the Vasco da Gama Movement during the VdGM preconference in Istanbul