Policy
WMA's Policies on Ethical and Social Issues
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 worldwide. Some of the Declarations have needed revision in light of new knowledge or to improve the sometimes awkward wording that inevitably occurs 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.
- Declaration of Taipei on Health Databases and Biobanks (Revised)
- Declaration of Sydney on the Determination of Death and the Recovery of Organs (Revised)
- Declaration of Tokyo with guidelines for Medical Doctors concerning Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in relation to Detention and Imprisonment (Revised)
- Statement on Adolescent Suicide (Revised)
- Statement on Ageing
- Statement on Alcohol and Road Safety (Revised)
- Statement on Body Searches of Prisoners (Revised)
- Statement on Child Abuse and Neglect (Revised)
- Statement on Cyber-Attacks on Health and Other Critical Infrastructures
- Statement on Divestment in Fossil Fuels
- Statement on Ethical Considerations in Global Medical Electives
- Statement on Female Genital Mutilation (Revised)
- Statement on Injury Control (Revised)
- Statement on Weapons of Warfare and Their Relation to Life and Health (Revised)
- Statement on Obesity in Children
- Statement on Physicians and Public Health (Revised)
- Statement on the Physician’s Role in Obesity (Revised)
- Statement on the Responsibilities of Physicians in Preventing and Treating Opiate and Psychotropic Drug Abuse (Revised)
- Statement on Traffic Injury (Revised)
- Resolution on the Protection of Healthcare Facilities and Personnel in Syria
- Resolution on Zika Virus Infection
- Resolution on Refugees and Migrants
- Resolution on Occupational and Environmental and Safety
- Resolution on the Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (Revised)