Vision
The World Medical Association (WMA) is the global federation of National Medical Associations representing the millions of physicians worldwide. Acting on behalf of patients and physicians, the WMA endeavors to achieve the highest possible standards of medical care, ethics, education and health-related human rights for all people.
Foundation
September 18, 1947 Paris:
1. WMA General Assembly27 National Medical Associations as founding members
President: Prof. Dr Eugène Marquis, (F)
President-Elect: Dr Jar. Stucklik (CS)
Tresurer: Dr Otto Leuch (CH)
Initial Secretary: Dr Charles Hill (UK)
Membership
102 National Medical Associations from around the World representing more than 9 million physicians.
Individual physicians can join as Associate Members.
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Fields of Activities
• reaching global consensus on medical ethics• guidance on problems of medical ethics• socio-medical affaires• representation to international Organizations e.g.
UN, WHO, UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, ILO, IOM, IFPMA
• support for the regional and national physicians associations (on request)
• support for the development of physicians’ self-government
• projects along this line
Bodies
• General Assembly (yearly)• Council (2 x year)• Executive Committee (on demand)• Committees (2 x year)
Committees
• Medical Ethics Committee• Socio-Medical Affairs Committee• Finance and Planning Committee
Organs
„Officers“
•President, President Elect, Immediate Past President•Chair of Council, Vice-Chair of Council•Treasurer•Chairpersons of the 3 committees
Official•Secretary General
Secretariat
1947-1974 New York, USA
1975 -
Ferney-Voltaire, France
Lake ofGeneva
UNWHO
WMA
Old TownGeneva
AirportRunway
JuraMountains
Historical Documents1948/1949/ Declaration of Geneva
(Physicians‘ Oath and 1. international code of ethics)
1964/1975/ 2000/2008
Declaration of HelsinkiEthical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects
1975/2006 Declaration of TokyoGuidelines for Medical Doctors concerning Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in relation to Detention and Imprisonment
1981/1995/ 2005
Declaration of LisbonThe Rights of the Patient
1991/2006 Declaration of Malta
Hunger Strikers
• International Code of Medical Ethics, Patient Advocacy and Patients‘ Rights, Ethics in the Event of Disasters, Advance Directives (“Living Wills”), Access to Health Care, Economy and Health, Armed Conflict, Child Abuse an Neglect, Medical Liability Reform, Torture,
• Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Abortion, Human Reproductive Material, Genetics, Terminal Illness, Death and the Recovery of Organs, Organ Donation and Transplantation, Medical Education
• Physicians and Commercial EnterprisesMedical Research, Animal Use in Biomedical ResearchPatient Safety, Patients with Mental Illness Physicians and Public Health, Avian and Pandemic Influenza,Environmental Issues, Adolescent Suicide, Obesity, Opiate and Psychotropic Drug Abuse, Injury Control, Alcohol and Road Safety, Traffic Injury, Medical Assistance in Air Travel, Child Safety in Air Travel, Smoking in Public Places, SARS, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Emergencies Communication and Coordination, MigrationOrgan Donation in China, Support of the Bolivian MedicalAssociation, Investigation of the Missing, Nuclear Testing
• Enviroment and Health
Themes
Policies
• Resolutionspecific, limited in region or time
• Statementrefers to overarching problems
• Declarationrelating to fundamental questions
How are policies been made?
Committee Level
Council Level
General Assembly
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Executive committeeExecutive committee
Finance GroupFinance Group
Work GroupsWork Groups
Medical EthicsMedical Ethics
Socio-Medical Affaires
Socio-Medical Affaires
Luncheon SessionLuncheon Session
Scientific Session Scientific Session
Scientific Session Scientific Session
Assoc. Members Members
Assoc. Members Members
General AssemblyGeneral Assembly
Work Groups/ Free time
Work Groups/ Free time
CouncilCouncil
General AssemblyGeneral Assembly
CouncilCouncil
Work GroupsWork Groups
Special FunctionSpecial Function
Council
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Finance &Planning
Credentials
General AssemblyGeneral Assembly
GA-Schedule
ReceptionReception
Special FunctionsSpecial Functions
Reception & DinnerReception & Dinner
Reception & DinnerReception & Dinner
Recent Achievements
Education
Medical Ethics Manual
Course on Prison Medicine
Course on Tuberculosis and one on MDR-TB
Infection control
Speaking Books
Recent Achievements
Human Rights
Teaching Courses to implement the Istanbul Protocol
Individual interventions
Conference on health as human right in the middle east
Multi-partner approach to demand from WHO to report attacks on health personnel
Recent Achievements
Caring Physiciansof the World
AdvocacyBookConferencesLeadership Course
Recent Achievements
Advocacy
Intensifying contact to United Nations, WHO and ILO• Bringing our views on NCDs to the UN• Focussing on Social Determinants of health
Joining the Global Health Work Force Alliance
Bringing physicians views and interests on the table
Recent (2012) I
• Medical Ethics and Advanced Technology• Abuse of Psychiatry • Regulations in Time of Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Violence
• Organ and Tissue Donation• WMA’s Prohibition of Physician Participation in Capital Punishment
• Electronic Cigarettes and Other Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems
• Violence in the Health
Recent (2012) II
• Violence in the Health• Ethical Implications of Collective Action by Physicians
• Forced and Coerced Sterilisation• Prioritisation of Immunisation• Minimum Price for Alcohol• Plain Packaging of Cigarettes • Resolution in Support of Professor Cyril Karabus
• All policy is reviewed at least every 10 years
Teaming Up
World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA)(www.whpa.org)
Leadership seminarsPublic events in Geneva (Patient safety)Work on • Counterfeits in medicine• Tobacco control• HIV/AIDS• Fighting stigma in mental health
Positive Practice EnvironmentsPPE - Campaign
Teaming Up
World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA)(www.whpa.org)
Non-Communicable Diseases
• taking a broader perspective than WHO• providing a simple but universal tool
WHPA Health Improvement Card
WHPA
Expert Conferences
• Declaration of Helsinki• Helsinki 2008• Cairo 2008• Sao Paulo 2008, 2010, 2011• Rotterdam 2012• Cape Town 2012• Tokyo 2013
• Climate Change - Copenhagen 2009• Task shifting - Reykjavik 2009• Finance Crisis and Health 2010
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