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Featured WONCA Publications

WONCA has an enormous depth of expertise on family medicine in its Working Parties, Special interest Groups, regional and other committees. That expertise has helped WONCA to produce numerous publications over the years. Find out more about the latest and featured publications:
The WONCA CPD standards (2016)
The WONCA Standards for Postgraduate Family Medicine education (2013)
The "WONCA Guidebook" - The Contribution of Family Medicine to Improving Health Systems (2013)
The "WONCA Rural Medical Education Guidebook" (2014)
"Family Doctors in the Field - environmental stories from across the globe"

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The Barbara Starfield Collection

The 'Case for Primary Care'

"Barbara was a tireless advocate for family medicine and primary care. She reminded us of why we chose to become family doctors – to help people, improve health, and make the world a better and fairer place. She saw family doctors as the best hope for health care."  Richard Roberts 2011

Professor Barbara Starfield championed the value and need of strong primary health care systems worldwide. This collection emphasizes the case for primary care and includes a number of Barbara Starfield's own articles as well as other key related material.

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WONCA Publications

Standards, Guidebooks and more

WONCA position statements

WONCA statements on a variety of issues

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PEARLS

577 Individual behavioural counselling helps people to quit smoking 575 Antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplements may be beneficial in age-related macular degeneration 574 Oral antifungals effective for toenail onychomycosis 570 Decision aids beneficial for people facing health treatment or screening decisions 569 Computer-generated reminders on paper benefit quality of care

WHO Disease Outbreak News

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – Saudi Arabia Lassa Fever – Nigeria Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo Yellow fever – Brazil

WHO Emergencies and Disasters

1.4 million vaccines from global stockpile support yellow fever control in Nigeria WHO supports the immunization of 874 000 people against yellow fever in Nigeria WHO provides 1.2 million antibiotics to fight plague in Madagascar