WMA: recognition of the essential role of health professionals in tobacco control

WMA - Policy:
"WMA Council Resolution on implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on tobacco control
De: Dr. Ronald Davis [mailto:davis@globalink.org]
Enviada em: segunda-feira, 27 de junho de 2005 12:45
Assunto: WMA urges natl medical associations to support FCTC
At its meeting last month, the World Medical Association, a consortium of approximately 80 National Medical Associations, adopted the policy copied below regarding the FCTC.
Best wishes,
Ron Davis

http://www.wma.net/e/policy/cr_4.htm

Adopted at the 170th WMA Council Session, Divonne-les-Bains, France, 15 May 2005

The World Medical Association Welcomes the recognition of the essential role of health professionals in tobacco control as the focus of World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2005;
Recognises the importance of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in furthering the campaign to protect people from exposure and addiction to tobacco;
Encourages national medical associations to work assiduously and energetically to get their governments to ratify and implement the FCTC;
Urges governments to introduce regulation and other measures as set out in the FCTC. Governments should also introduce a ban on smoking in enclosed public places and work places as an urgent public health intervention;
Recognises the vital role of health professionals in public health education and in support for smoking cessation;
Commits, with the other members of the World Health Professions Alliance, to mobilise health professionals in the fight to implement the FCTC and to reduce the human cost of tobacco.

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