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 Cordoba on Patient-Physician Relationship
- WMA Declaration of Oslo on Social Determinants of Health (revised)
- WMA Declaration of Ottawa on Child Health (revised)
- WMA Declaration on Pseudoscience and Pseudotherapies in the Field of Health
- WMA Statement concerning the Relationship between Physicians and Commercial Enterprises (revised)
- WMA Statement on Human Genome Editing
- WMA Statement on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease
- WMA Statement on Physicians’ Responsibilities in Preventing and Combating Transplant-related Crimes
- WMA Statement on Stem Cell Research (revised)
- WMA Statement on Violence against Women (revised)
- WMA Resolution in support of an International Day of the Medical Profession, October 30
- WMA Resolution in Support of Dr Serdar Küni (reaffirmed as a Resolution)
- WMA Resolution in support to the Turkish Medical Association
- WMA Resolution on Equitable Global Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccine
- WMA Resolution on Human Rights Violations against Uighur people in China
- WMA Resolution on Protecting the Future Generation’s Right to Live in a Healthy Environment
- WMA Resolution on the Access to Adequate Pain Treatment (revised)
- WMA Resolution on the Responsibility of Physicians in the Documentation and Denouncing Acts of Torture and Ill-treatment (revised)
- WMA Resolution regarding the Medical Profession and COVID-19
Policies reaffirmed by the 215th Council Session (online), Cordoba, Spain
- WMA Statement on Freedom to Attend Medical Meetings (with minor revision)
- WMA Statement on the Relationship between Physicians and Pharmacists in Medicinal Therapy (with minor revision)
- WMA Resolution on Drug Prescription (with minor revision)
- WMA Resolution on the Designation of an Annual Medical Ethics Day
- WMA Resolution on the Healthcare Situation in Syria (with minor revision)
- WMA Resolution on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (with minor revision)
Policy Handbook English-Version 2020 (printed in January 2021; 4 MB)