WHO ethical criteria

WHO Ethical Criteria for Medicinal Drug Promotion, Geneva 1988 (ISBN 92 4 154239 X)... 

WHO. Ethical criteria for medicinal drug promotion. Geneva World Health Organization 1988. 

The Assembly appealed to the pharmaceutical industry, health professional and consumer organizations, and other interested parties to promote the formulation and use of good information practices consistent with the principles of the WHO Ethical Criteria for Medicinal Drug Promotion monitor and report problem cases and aspects of cross-border advertising, promotion, and sale of medical products using the Internet and maintain legal and ethical standards in these activities. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued the Ethical Criteria for Medicinal Drug Promotion in the late 1980s, which set out suggested standards to be implemented via regulation, international and national codes of practice. 

An important issue on multiauthored papers is deciding who should be an author (single-authored empirical reports are extremely rare since contemporary clinical research typically requires considerable collaboration). Since many people are involved in the execution of a clinical trial, appropriate criteria are needed to decide on those who will be listed as authors. As in so many instances in this book, both scientific and ethical issues need to be addressed. It is unethical for someone who should not be an author to expect to be so. 

Internationally recognized ethics and professional practice standards and criteria for those who conduct international projects must be mandatory components in all engineering curricula and on-going professional education. 

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