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.
- WMA Declaration of Madrid on Professionally-led Regulation (revised)
- WMA Declaration of Reykjavik – Ethical Consideration Regarding the Use of Genetics in Medicine (revised)
- WMA Declaration on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
- WMA Declaration on the Relation of Law and Ethics
- WMA Statement on Access of Women and Children to Health Care (revised)
- WMA Statement on Antimicrobial Resistance (revised)
- WMA Statement on Augmented Intelligence in Medical Care
- WMA Statement on Free Sugar Consumption and Sugar-sweetened Beverages
- WMA Statement on Healthcare Information for All
- WMA Statement on Medical Age Assessment of Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers
- WMA Statement on Reducing Dietary Sodium Intake (revised)
- WMA Statement on Sex Selection Abortion and Female Foeticide (revised)
- WMA Statement on Solitary Confinement (revised)
- WMA Statement on Violence and Health (revised)
- WMA Resolution on Climate Emergency
- WMA Resolution on Legislation Against Abortion in Nicaragua (revised)
- WMA Resolution on the Revocation of WHO Guidelines on Opioid Use
Policies reaffirmed by the 212th Council Session in Santiago and the 213th Council Session in Tbilisi
HB-E-Version-2019-2 (printed in February 2020; 3,7 MB)