Achieving Global Justice: Nursing Role in World Medical Association

This assignment provides an overview of the World Medical Association (WMA) and explores how nursing professionals can contribute to its mission of achieving a more just global community. It discusses the WMA's origins, structure, and its work in promoting ethical medical practices, advocating for human rights related to health, providing emergency relief, and improving medical education globally. The assignment highlights the various ways nursing professionals can contribute to the WMA's programs, including promoting ethical behavior, providing equitable patient care, raising health awareness, preventing communicable diseases, and sharing medical knowledge. The assignment concludes by emphasizing the importance of collaborative efforts between nursing professionals and organizations like the WMA in addressing global health challenges and fostering a more just and equitable world.

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Introduction
The purpose of the assignment is to provide a brief description about the contribution of the
public, private, non-profit agencies or faith based groups and nursing professionals could
result in the realization of a more just global community.
The chosen organization for the assignment is World Medical Association.
The poster will provide an overview of the World Medical Association, Contribution of the
organization in common good such as advocacy, emergency relief and education and
Contribution of nursing professional in the program arranged by the organization.
Overview of the Organization
The World Medical Association is a global independent confederation of medical association
that represents the health professionals such as physicians around the world.
The idea of establishing the World Medical Association has given by the House of the British
Medical Association in the year 1945.
The organization was established on 18th September, 1947 at Ferney-Voltaire, France.
At that time physicians from 27 different countries has performed in the first general
assembly of the World Medical Association at Paris.
In the year 2017 the organization has grown to 114 national medical association and the
number of physicians associated with it is more than 10 million.
In order to provide financial support to the members of the organization an executive board
known as the council has established the Secretariat of the World Medical Association at
New York city in the year 1945.
The present president of the Organization is Dr. Yoshitake Yokokura.

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There are two kind of membership in the organization- Constituent Membership (Member of
national association) and Associate Membership (Individual physician).
According to the statistics of 2016 there are 114 constituent member and 1013 associate
members in the World Medical Association.
The purpose of the organization is to provide forum to its associated members in order to
communicate freely, active cooperation, professional competence, achieve desired outcomes
related to medical ethics and promote freedom of the professional physicians around the
world.
The main target of the organization is to provide facility to the high-calibre, provide healthy
environment to the patient in order to ensure human care and improve the quality of life for
individual around the globe.
The mission of the organization is to serve humanity by endeavouring to achieve the highest
international standards in Medical Education, Medical Science, Medical Art and Medical
Ethics, and Health Care for all people in the world (WMA - The World Medical
Association-Home, 2018).
Contribution to the Common Good
The organization provides guidelines to improve the standard of the ethical behaviour
provided by the physicians.
The organization provides effective policies and develop the existing policies in order to deal
with the ethical issues in the medical field.
The organization play an important role in order to advocate the human rights related to
health for all the people around the world.

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The physicians present in the organization provide effective care with excellent quality
through their knowledge and experience to the patient without any discrimination in order to
promote human rights related to health around the world.
There are many situations in which the patients and the physicians as well could be victim
and face abuse related human rights regarding health. The World Medical Association
provides effective interventions in order to support such victims and take proper steps against
the violation.
The organization play an important role in order to provide emergency relief to the people
with health related need.
The physicians in the organization fulfil their responsibilities regarding health care of all
people in the world, maintaining well-being, resolving public health issue, promoting health
and creating awareness related to health in an effective manner.
The world Medical Association advocates for the improvement of the health system in order
to address health related issues.
The organization provides preventive actions for the communicable diseases and provides
focus to the health determinants that could affect the quality of care in order to promote
health in an effective manner.
The world Medical Association has signed an agreement with the WCEA in order to establish
a global network to improve the course related to medical education.
The organization provides special terms to the members that could provide them access to
effective platform and association to share education.
The organization provides effective education program for free to the developing region
(WMA - The World Medical Association-Home, 2018).

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Contribution of the Nursing Professional
The nursing professional could contribute effort to the programs of the World Medical
Association in order provide service to the people with need.
The nursing professional could take help of the guidelines provided by the organization in
order to learn about the ethical behaviour and could contribute to the medical ethics in an
effective manner (Cannaerts, Gastmans & Casterlé, 2014).
The skills of the nursing professionals could help to contribute in the program by providing
effective care to the patients without any discrimination (Parahoo, 2014).
The nursing professionals could perform in the program of the organization in order to create
awareness regarding health and maintain well-being. Such contribution would help to
promote health to the individual level (Hamlin et al., 2016).
The nursing professionals could contribute to the effort of the organization by providing
prevention action such as effective sanitation to the people regarding the communicable
disease (Blais et al., 2015).
The nursing professional could contribute to the program of the organization by sharing the
knowledge and skills related to medical practice in the platform provided by the organization
for free (Dunbar-Jacob, Nativio & Khalil, 2013).

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Blais, K., Hayes, J. S., Kozier, B., & Erb, G. L. (2015). Professional nursing practice:
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Cannaerts, N., Gastmans, C., & Casterlé, B. D. D. (2014). Contribution of ethics education to
the ethical competence of nursing students: educators’ and students’
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Dunbar-Jacob, J., Nativio, D. G., & Khalil, H. (2013). Impact of doctor of nursing practice
education in shaping health care systems for the future. Journal of Nursing
Education, 52(8), 423-427.
Hamlin, L., Davies, M., Richardson-Tench, M., & Sutherland-Fraser, S.
(2016). Perioperative Nursing-EBook-epub: An Introduction. Elsevier Health
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Parahoo, K. (2014). Nursing research: principles, process and issues. Palgrave Macmillan.
WMA - The World Medical Association-Home. (2018). Retrieved from
https://www.wma.net/.

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