What is The Handbook of WMA Policy?
The Handbook of WMA Policy is issued as a record of the World Medical Association's stance on a variety of ethical and social issues. The issues are usually important factors in human health and are relevant to physicians world-wide. Some of the Declarations have needed revision in the light of new knowledge, or to improve the sometimes awkward wording, inevitable when people of different tongues deliberate together. This dynamic process shows that the WMA is a constantly evolving, unique organization, ideal to act as a protector of patients' best interests, and as advocates for the medical profession.

Policies adopted by the WMA General Assembly, Seoul, Korea, October 2008
	Declaration of Helsinki
	Statement on Resistance to Antimicrobial Drugs
	Resolution on Physician Participation in Capital Punishment
	Resolution Supporting The Ottawa Convention
	Statement on Violence and Health
	Resolution on the Economic Crisis: Implications for Health
	Statement on reducing the Global Burden of Mercury
	Resolution on Poppies for Medicine Project for Afghanistan
	Declaration of Seoul on Professional Autonomy and Clinical Independence
	Statement on Reducing Dietary Sodium Intake
	Resolution on Collaboration between Human and Veterinary Medicine
	Statement on Nuclear Weapons
	Resolution on Access of Women and Children to Health Care and the Role of Women in the Medical Profession
	Resolution on Medical Care for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

 

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