Current Policies
WMA's policies on ethical and social issues
| Title | Tags | Year | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WMA Declaration on Patient Safety | Medical (treatment) Errors, Medical Regulation, Patient Safety, Prevention, Professionalism | 2002 | Declaration | |
| WMA Statement on Safe Injections in Health Care | AIDS, Hepatitis, HIV, Infection, Injections, Needle Stick Injury, Safe injections, Safety, Sterile Equipment | 2002 | Statement | |
| WMA Statement on Self-medication | Information, Marketing, Prescription, Self-Medication | 2002 | Statement | |
| WMA Declaration of Edinburgh on Prison Conditions and the Spread of Communicable Diseases | Communicable Disease, Detention, Edinburgh, Prison, Tuberculosis | 2001 | Declaration | |
| WMA Resolution on the Inclusion of Medical Ethics and Human Rights in the Curriculum of Medical Schools World-Wide | Curriculum, Ethics, Human Rights, Medical School | 1999 | Resolution | |
| WMA Declaration on Principles of Health Care in Sports Medicine | Athletics, Doping, Drug, Enhancement, Ethics, Hormones, Sport, Sports Medicine | 1999 | Declaration | |
| WMA Statement on Health Hazards of Tobacco Products and Tobacco-Derived Products | Essential Medicines, FCTC, Health Hazards, Passive Smoking, Public Health, Smoking Cessation, Tobacco, Tobacco Control, Tobacco Products, Trade agreements | 1997 | Statement | |
| WMA Declaration of Hamburg concerning Support for Medical Doctors Refusing to Participate in, or to Condone, the Use of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment | Degrading Treatment, Ethics, Hamburg, Inhuman, Physicians, Rehabilitation, Reporting, Torture | 1997 | Declaration of Hamburg | |
| WMA Statement on Family Planning and the Right of a Woman to Contraception | Access, Contraception, Family Planning, Patient Rights, Women's Health | 1996 | Statement | |
| WMA Statement on Freedom to Attend Medical Meetings | Freedom, Medical Meetings, Meetings, Professional Autonomy, WMA Assemblies | 1984 | Statement | |