Editors-in-Chief
Lyn Clearihan, Director Education and Training, Monash Univeristy/Victorian Metropolitan Alliance, Victoria, Australia
Tai Pong Lam, University of Hong Kong, China
Zorayda Leopando, Vice Chancellor for Planning and Development, University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines

Asia Pacific Family Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal soon to be launched by BioMed Central.

Asia Pacific Family Medicine the official journal for the Asia Pacific Region of WONCA, aims to provide a forum for the dissemination of high quality regional research and to enhance the standards of family medicine by focusing on best practice.

Family medicine embraces the disciplines of primary care, general practice and community medicine. It is a discipline that emphasizes comprehensive and continuous care for non-referred, undifferentiated problems irrespective of patient age, gender or ethnicity and is usually centred within the community but may embrace some hospital settings. Medial care in this environment addresses the bio-psycho-social nature of illness, providing holistic care for the total patient irrespective of their problem.
The journal welcomes practical, relevant articles covering the broad range of interests within the field of family medicine.

Asia Pacific Family Medicine is an established journal published since 2002. To browse articles published in the journal previously please visit the journal's previous website.

Asia Pacific Family Medicine is accepting submissions; please use the online submission system to submit your manuscript. For all enquiries about the journal, please contact: afm_wonca@pacific.net.ph.

Asia Pacific Family Medicine is published by BioMed Central, an independent publishing house committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is open access - immediately and permanently available online without charge or any other barriers to access.

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Editors-in-Chief
Lyn Clearihan (Australia)
Tai Pong Lam (China)
Zorayda Leopando (Philippines)

Editorial Board
Alex Bienvinido Jr. Alip (Philippines)
Nobutaro Ban (Japan)
Zunilda Bustami (Indonesia)
David Chao (China)
Ching-Yu Chen (Taiwan)
Yook-Chin Chia (Malaysia)
James Dickinson (Canada)
Pham Huy Dung (Viet Nam)
Lee Gan Goh (Singapore)
Ricardo Guanzon (Philippines)
Richard Hays (United Kingdom)
Ryuki Kassai (Japan)
Michael Kidd (Australia)
Sudjoko Kuswadji (Indonesia)
Alfred Loh (Singapore)
Bee Horng Lue (Taiwan)
Danielle Mazza (Australia)
John Campbell Murdoch (Australia)
Reynaldo Olazo (Philippines)
Somjit Prueksaritanond (Thailand)
Yong Rafidah Abdul Rahman (Malaysia)
Roberto Ruiz (Philippines)
Dulamsuren Samdan (Mongolia)
Neil Sharma (Fiji)
Ho-Cheol Shin (Korea, Republic Of)
Joachim Sturmberg (Australia)
Sompong Thanapaisarnkit (Thailand)
Leslie John Toop (Australia)
Pang-Heng Va (Macao)
Sugito Wonodirekso (Indonesia)
Zhenglai Wu (China)

Advisory Board
Hideyasu Aoyama (Japan)
Tony Dixon (Hong Kong)
Wesley Fabb (Australia)
John Howie (United Kingdom)
Roger Jones (United Kingdom)
Ian Mc Whinney (Canada)
John Murtagh (Australia)
M.K. Rajakumar (Malaysia)
Robert Rakel (United States)
Deborah Saltman (Australia)
Richard Smith (United Kingdom)
Roger Strasser (Australia)
Barry Weiss (United States)