WONCA Europe Newsletter
January 2023
EDITOR’S FOREWORD
It is a pleasure to share with you the January issue of our newsletter
You may find out about our Networks and Special Interest Groups activities, including Lifestyle Medicine SIG declaration of cooperation with European Lifestyle Medicine Council and its free Online Lifestyle Medicine course.
Furthermore, you may learn more about WONCA Europe Executive Board activities through our last virtual monthly meeting summary.
In addition, this edition features Integrated brief interventions for noncommunicable disease risk factors in primary care: the manual: BRIEF project to which WE president has contributed.
Please keep updated visiting our WEB page and follow us in our twitter account @WoncaEurope and our Facebook page.
On behalf of WONCA Europe Executive Board
Thomas Frese, President-elect
Jose M Bueno, EQuiP Member at large
WONCA Europe Newsletter Editors
News
A summary of the January EB meetingThe WONCA Europe Executive Board (EB) had a productive online meeting on January 9, 2023. EB and task groups are finalizing several documents. The final documents will be presented to the Council in Brussels. WONCA Europe will continue with... |
BRIEF ProjectBrief interventions can reduce the #NCD burden. But health care professionals need a system that makes it easy and natural for them to discuss #NCD risks with their... |
Scale up your practice with a free Online Lifestyle Medicine courseLifestyle Medicine is a medical specialty within conventional Western Medicine that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to treat chronic conditions. As described in the 2010 position paper1, there is a need... |
Rural WONCA Calendar 2023Click here to view Rural WONCA Calendar 2023. |
Shlomo Vinker to give a keynote in the 40th Meeting of the Portuguese Association of General Practice and Family Medicine National MeetingShlomo Vinker, President of WONCA Europe – “These are challenging times for Family Medicine” The 40th National FGM Meeting will feature a special session dedicated to the anticipation of the WONCA World Conference in 2025, which... |
WONCA Europe Lifestyle Medicine SIG declare cooperation with European Lifestyle Medicine CouncilLifestyle medicine has evolved and developed during the last decade concurrently with the dramatic rise in the prevalence of chronic diseases that can be avoided or managed with the adoption of a healthy lifestyle. Lifestyle medicine... |
Upcoming Events
 EUROPREV e-learning webinars 2023 - Module 2 15 February 2023, Virtual |
 Online Workshop: How to understand and do literature reviews. 1 March 2023, Virtual |
 The Leonardo EURACT Level 1 Course 30 March - 1 April 2023, Malta |
 2023 European Forum on Prevention and Primary Care 17-18 April 2023, Porto, Portugal |
 96th EGPRN Meeting 11-14 May 2023, Split, Croatia |
 28th WONCA Europe Conference 7-10 June 2023, SQUARE Convention Centre, Brussels, Belgium |
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