Contribution of Family Medicine to Improving Health Systems

MICHAEL KIDD President, World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia.

• 1. Meeting people’s health needs 2. Improving health systems 3. Family doctors in health systems 4. Education and professional development 5. Creating a supportive environment for optimal family practice 6. Family medicine in lower- and upper- middle income countries 7. “The African family physician”: development of family medicine in Africa in the twenty- first century