Fri. May 17, 2019 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Room 1 (1F Main Hall)

Organizer:Christiaan van Weel(Department Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands/Department Health Services Research and Policy, Australian National University, Australia)
Chair: Chris van Weel(Department Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands/Department Health Services Research and Policy, Australian National University, Australia), Felicity Goodyear-Smith(Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Since 2013, the WONCA Working Party on Research has organized comparisons between WONCA Member Organizations of the status of primary health care and the policy to implement health systems reforms, in their country. These presentations were standardized through the use of an 11 slides’ power-point template – ‘the panel method’ and aimed to present, critically appraise and compare countries. The WONCA Asia Pacific region organized two highly successful comparisons that provided important insights in the regional status of family medicine and primary health care.
Built on this success, the WONCA Working Party on Research proposes more in-depth comparisons between countries, of the role, structure, organization, training and performance of primary health care. The aim of this Workshop is to review the experiences with the panel method, and explore how its findings can inform policy makers. Presentations will explore recent primary health care innovations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand, the importance of empirical primary health care data for health-economists and how the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC) in its current revision to ICPC-3 can support comparisons.
Based on the Workshop findings, future comparative studies – in the region and/or at a WONCA global level – can be planned.

Chris van Weel
Chris van Weel graduated (Leiden University) 1973, full time FP in the Ommoord community health centre in Rotterdam 1973- 1985. PhD Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 1981 on a practice based study of prevention.
From 1985 – 2012 professor of family medicine Radboud University Nijmegen, and head of department. Since 2013 affiliated with the Australian National University, as professor of primary health care research, currently in an honorary appointment.
President of WONCA 2007 – 2010, after serving as chair of the WONCA WP research 1984 – 1998, and European president 1998 - 2001.
Research focusses on primary care morbidity, multi-morbidity, long-term outcome of chronic illness, using the Nijmegen Continuous Morbidity Registration family practices network.

Founder EU Erasmus programme ‘Primary Health Care’ for primary care attachments and research electives to medical students from 15 countries.

Co-founder (1995) the Netherlands School of Primary Care Research (CaRe), currently member of its Board of Governors.



Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Felicity Goodyear-Smith is a professor of general practice and primary health care at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is currently the Chair of the wonca working Party on Research. In this role she instigated panels at wonca conferences whereby primary health care systems are presented and compared, enabling cross-national lessons to be learned both at the meetings and through subsequent peer-reviewed publications. She is passionate about primary care research and has co-edited two books on behalf of wonca: International Perspectives on Primary Care Research and How to do Primary Care Research, both published by Taylor and Francis.