by Lilian van der Ven, MD, Amsterdam UMC. Current and future developments For a number of years, the number of residents in social medicine has been lagging behind, resulting in an imminent shortage of social medicine specialists. To counteract this, in 2016 the Ministry of Health proposed a new approach […]

1. Background  Foundation Human Nature (FHN) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) supporting sustainable rural health and development projects in Ecuador. FHN works with a local health committee and representatives of the Ministry of Health in strengthening a primary health center in the El Páramo region in the north-west of the country. […]