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

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Old TownGeneva

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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

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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

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Work GroupsWork Groups

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Finance &Planning

Credentials

General AssemblyGeneral Assembly

GA-Schedule

ReceptionReception

Special FunctionsSpecial Functions

Reception & DinnerReception & Dinner

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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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