CORE VALUES OF FAMILY MEDICINE: THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES - Statement of the WONCA Europe Conference 2020, Berlin
The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting every aspect of society. Obviously, it also affects healthcare provision. There are strong tendencies towards fragmentation of care. Digital technologies as a mean to tackle CoViD- 19 induced restrictions are gaining importance. Conflicting interests are i...
2020 Public
Overdiagnosis in Health Care and Overmedicalisation of the Society – 68th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe
During the 68th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, on behalf of WONCA Europe, Anna Stavdal presented the statement "Overdiagnosis in health care and overmedicalisation of the society" under the agend item "Advancing public health in the WHO European Re...
2020 Public
Planetary Health & Primary Care – 67th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe
WONCA Europe has released a joint statement on Planetary Health & Primary Care for the 67th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (Statement on session 5 (b): Improving environment and health in the context of Health 2020 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development)....
2020 Public
Refugee Health – 67th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe
WONCA Europe has released a joint statement on Refugee Health for the 67th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (Session 5 (a): Roadmap to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, building on the Health 2020 policy framework). The statement was prepared in cooperation wi...
2020 Public
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization: Leaving No One Behind – 68th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe
In the 68th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, Harris Lygidakis presented the statement "Vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization: leaving no one behind" on behalf of WONCA Europe. This statement was supported by: the European and World Federation of Occupa...
2020 Public
European Training Requirements for GP/FM Specialist Training – EURACT Document 2018
WONCA Europe and its teaching organization EURACT have produced several important documents on the definition and description of the General Practice/Family Medicine (GP/FM) specialty. EURACT specifically dealt with the different aspects of education in GP/FM – from undergraduate to special...
2018 Public
Overdiagnosis And Action to Be Taken – Position Paper 2018
Modern medicine has brought impressive benefits to humankind. A side-effect of its many successes is however an unfounded, cultural belief that more medicine is necessarily better, irrespective of context. Consequently, problems related to “too much medicine”, overdiagnosis and overtr...
2018 Public
WONCA Europe 2018 Krakow: Promoting Equity for a Better Quality of Care for All Europeans
“Everyone has the right to timely access to affordable, preventive and curative health care of good quality” is one of the 20 principles and rights proclaimed by the European Commission in 2017. EQuiP, the European Society for Quality and Safety in Family Practice, a WON...
2018 Public