Current Policies
WMA's policies on ethical and social issues
Title | Tags | Year | Type | |
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WMA Statement on Body Searches of Prisoners | Body Cavity Search, Correctional Institutions, Detention, Physical Examination, Prison | 2005 | Statement | |
WMA Statement on Boxing | Accident Prevention, Boxing, Brain Injury, Sport, Trauma | 2005 | Statement | |
WMA Statement on Female Genital Mutilation | Circumcision, FGM, Genital Mutilation, Human Rights, Medicalisation, Mutilation, Violence against Women | 2005 | Statement | |
WMA Resolution on WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement of Medical Education | Basic Medical Education (Undergraduate medical education), Continuing Professional Development (CPD), Education, Medical Education (Medical training), Postgraduate Medical Education (Specialisation, Quality, Residency), Standards, World Federation for Medical Education | 2004 | Resolution | |
WMA Statement on Water and Health | Emergency, Environment, Health, Water | 2004 | Statement | |
WMA Resolution on the Designation of an Annual Medical Ethics Day | Medical Ethics Day | 2003 | Resolution | |
WMA Statement on the Responsibility of Physicians in the Documentation and Denunciation of Acts of Torture or Cruel or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment | Degrading Treatment, Ethics, Human Rights, Inhuman Treatment, Istanbul Protocol, Torture | 2003 | Resolution, Statement | |
WMA Resolution on the Non-Commercialisation of Human Reproductive Material | Embryo Transfer, Ethics, Gametes, Reproductive Technology | 2003 | Resolution | |
WMA Statement on Advance Directives (Living Wills) | Advance Directive, End-of-Life Care, Living Will, Patient Autonomy, Self-Determination | 2003 | Statement | |
WMA Statement on Forensic Investigation of the Missing | Ethics, Forensic Medicine, ICRC, Military Personnel, Missing Persons, Standards, War | 2003 | Statement | |
WMA Statement on Violence and Health | Advocacy, Data Collection, Medical Training, Prevention, Violence | 2003 | Statement | |
WMA Declaration of Washington on Biological Weapons | Biological Weapon, Conflicts, Disaster, Preparedness, Public Health, Resistance, Surveillance, Washington | 2003 | Declaration | |
WMA Statement on Women’s rights to Health Care and How that relates to the Prevention of Mother-to-child HIV infection | Gender Inequality, Health Care, HIV, Human Rights, Mother-to-Child Infection, Pregnancy, Prevention, Woman’s Rights | 2002 | Statement | |
WMA Resolution on the Abuse of Psychiatry | Abuse, Detention, Dissident, Political Prisoner, Psychiatry | 2002 | Resolution | |
WMA Statement on Sex Selection Abortion and Female Foeticide | Discrimination, Female Foeticide, Gender Selection | 2002 | Statement |