Asia Pacific Family Medicine is an open access journal aiming 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.
Editors-in-Chief
- Kelsey Hegarty, University of Melbourne
- Tai Pong Lam, University of Hong Kong
- Zorayda Leopando, University of the Philippines Manila
Asia Pacific Family Medicine is the official journal of the WONCA Asia Pacific
Articles
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Short report
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2013, 12:1 (22 May 2013)Women's impressions of their inpatient birth care as provided by family physicians in the Shizuoka family medicine training program in Japan
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Research
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2012, 11:9 (27 November 2012)Prevalence of insomnia and its impact on daily function amongst Malaysian primary care patients
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Commentary
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2012, 11:8 (5 October 2012)Primary care in the Asia-Pacific region: challenges and solutions
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Research
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2012, 11:7 (11 September 2012)Self-medication behaviors among Japanese consumers: sex, age, and SES differences and caregivers’ attitudes toward their children’s health management
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Commentary
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2012, 11:6 (8 August 2012)General Practitioners’ responses to global climate change - lessons from clinical experience and the clinical method
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Latest News
The Third Lyn Clearihan Award for the Best Paper was presented at the WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference, Jeju 2012 to Mora Claramita, Adi H Sutomo,
Mark A Graber and Albert JJ Scherpbier. The award winning paper was
“Are patient-centered care values as reflected in teaching scenarios really being taught when implemented by teaching faculty? A discourse analysis on an Indonesian medical school's curriculum”
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2011, 10:4.
Society information
WONCA Asia Pacific represents WONCA in the Asia-Pacific region (WONCA, the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians, is also known as the World Organization of Family Doctors). The society started as WONCA Asia Region in 1972, which was later subdivided into Asia Pacific and South Asia Middle East in 1992.
Asia Pacific Family Medicine is grateful for the support it has received from:
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Philippine Academy of Family Physicians
Chinese Taipei Association of Family Medicine
General Practitioners/Family Physicians Association, Thailand
Hong Kong College of Family Physicians
Korean Academy of Family Medicine
The Association of Family Medicine of Macao SAR
Professor Hideyasu Aoyama (Okayama University)
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