Resolutions and Position Papers

WFPHA and its Members influence international health policy through the development and implementation of Policy Resolutions and other advocacy initiatives. WFPHA has led the NGO community at Alma Ata in endorsing the concept of primary health care, urged linking health with economic development strategies, raised awareness of the health consequences of landmines and nuclear weapons, engaged as an active NGO participant in the negotiations leading up to the passage of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and is committed to providing leadership in efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals. WFPHA is nowadays actively involved in the Non Communicable Diseases process.

Since 1978 WFPHA has passed a total of 36 Resolutions and 4 Position Papers that have been classified as Environmental, Global, Globalization and Trade, Peace and Weapons, Tobacco or Diverse issues.

For more information about the definition of WFPHA Resolutions, Position Papers and Technical Paper, click here.

Environmental Issues

See outlines

• Population and Ecological Sustainability (1994)
• Persistent Organic Pollutants (1996)
• Improving the Control of Malaria While Instituting Alternatives to DDT (1999)
• Update on Malaria Control and the Use of DDT (1999)
• Health Care without Harm: Public Health Consequences of Medical Waste (1999)
• Global Climate Change (2001)
• Support for International Action to Eliminate Persistent Organic Pollutants (2001)
• DDT Production Facilities (2003)
• Zero Waste (2003)
• Call for a Global Ban on the Mining and Use of Asbestos (Amiante) (2005)
• Safer Chemical Policies (2008)

Global Issues

See outilens

• Position Paper: NGOs and Primary Health Care (1978)
• Position Paper: Health, Economics and Development (1996)
• NGOs and the World Health Organization (1997)
• Toward a World Public Health Fund (2002)
• WFPHA Resolution on Global Public Health Leadership (2004)
• Renewing Calls for a Global Action (2008)

Globalization and Trade Issues

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• Promoting Health in an Era of Global Free Trade (1998)
• International Debt Relief (1999)
• Public Health and Globalization (2001)
• Position Paper: International Trade Agreements: Priorities for Health (2003)
• Access to Essential Medicines: The Need for Fair Prices and Better Research (2004)
• Health and International Trade Agreements (2004)
• Ethical Restrictions on International Recruitment of Health Professionals from Low-Income Countries (2005)

Peace and Weapons Issues

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• Peace for Public Health Initiative (1993)
• Nuclear Weapons and Public Health (1993)
• Health in Cuba and the US Embargo (1994)
• Landmines (1994)
• Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (1997)
• Public Health, Peace and Human Rights (2003)
• Reinforcing the Public Health Commitments On Peace and Human Rights (2008)
• Prison Health (2011)
• Armed Conflict and War (2011)

Tobacco Issues

See outlines

• Position Paper: Global Tobacco Control (1998)
• Smoking in UN Buildings and Public Health (1993)
• Tobacco Control (2000)
• Tobacco Control through WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) (2003) 
• WFPHA Resolution Toward an International Health Professionals Tobacco Petition (2004)

Diverse Issues

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• Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes (1981)
• Destruction of the Remaining Smallpox Virus (1995)
• Beijing Conference on Women (1995)
• Healthy Food Pledge (2008)