Primary and Hospital Care, Volume 9, Issue 15

General Practice (GP) and Family Medicine seem to deal with an image problem in some countries, creating a lack of primary health care providers [...]

Family Medicine (FM) started in Kazakhstan in 1989 [...]

You will have certainly wondered why the Institute of Primary Care (IHAMB) of the University of Basel, Switzerland, awards two Poster Prizes [...]

The decision to apply as a host-country for the venue of a European Conference of general practitioners / Family Physicians was a real challenge in a country in which General Practice was a newly arrived sibling among academic disciplines [...]

On the 6th of November 2008, the Commission on Social Determinants of Health of the World Health Organisation launched its report: “Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health” [...]

More than ever, general practitioners (GPs) / family physicians (FPs) have better reasons to align together [...]

Dear colleagues and friends [...]

The development of General Practice / Family Medicine (GP/FM) during the last decades of the 20th century, with an increasing emphasis on community-based Primary Care, created a need to review the practice, and re-think the philosophy, of the discipl...

General Practice/Family Medicine (GP/FM) research is generally acknowledged as necessary and important [...]

In the 1850s, Europe experienced epidemics which killed many people. There was a need for an international classification of deaths, so that the government knew which epidemics they were dealing with [...]

Can Wonca really have an influence on the Swiss health care system? [...]

There are two issues that we need to consider when we are faced with the fact that the world today is much more connected than a few decades ago [...]

Primary Care, with family physicians, nurses, midwifes and other allied health providers, is essential for the health of people [...]

This article shares my personal experience with Family Medicine (FM) in Switzerland looking in the mirror of Wonca [...]

The evolution of international scientific organisations of General Practice in Europe 1959–1995 [...]

As the publishers of PrimaryCare, we take special pleasure in this wonderful special issue on the Wonca Congress in Basel that appears shortly before the tenth anniversary of this journal [...]

I had never even heard of Wonca until 1998, when a colleague persuaded me to attend a Wonca Conference – the 1998 Wonca World Conference in Dublin [...]

Integration of mental health boasts a long tradition in Swiss psychosomatic medicine [...]

Since its inception, Wonca has led the way in addressing the pressing issues as well as the emerging challenges of General Practice and Family Medicine around the globe [...]

This Wonca tree is a visualization of the definitions of primary medicine set down by Wonca Europe [...]

I am very interested to join this 15th Wonca conference because I could gain knowledge, skills, and attitudes from the experts from all over the world [...]

In sub-Saharan Africa Family Medicine, as such, is limited to urban areas [...]

“The Fascination of Complexity – Dealing with Individuals in a Field of Uncertainty”: You have probably come across the typical motto of the Wonca Europe Conference 2009 at the congress and in this special edition in varied ways [...]

Switzerland is one of the richest countries in the world and has one of the best health care systems worldwide, but also one of the most expansive ones [...]

Wonca’s work is closely linked with the development and promotion of quality in health care, more specifically in General Practice/Family Medicine (GP/FM) [...]

Family Medicine is not taught in Brazilian medical schools and Family Medicine faculty staff are absent in academic settings [...]

The three formerly autonomous Swiss associations of primary health care (general practitioners SGAM, general internists SGIM and paediatricians SGP) have decided to unite for political issues in a corporate, professional association called “Swiss Fam...

In September 2019, I will have been working as a general practitioner (GP) in a suburb of a major Swiss city for 5 years. It is 10 years after other GPs were starting to have trouble finding a successor for their single practice [...]

One of my highly regarded colleagues taught me, many years ago, to practise medicine bearing in mind the three big “E’s”: Evidence, (personal) Experience and Empathy [...]

What is my experience and what are my expectations of the Wonca Europe Conference in Basel [...]

Highlight number 1 was the starting signal: for the first time ever we had the privilege of staging the European scientific Family Medicine congress, the Wonca Europe Conference 2009, in Basel, in conjunction with the annual SGAM Conference [...]