Table 1

WHO soft law

ResolutionsDeclarationsRecommendations

  • WHA 64.5: Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework (2011).

  • WHA 72 Global Action on Patient Safety (2019).

  • Declaration of Alma-Ata on Primary Health Care (1978).

  • Declaration of Astana on Primary Health Care (2018).

  • WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care (2022).

  • WHO recommendations for routine immunisation (first issued 1984).

Strategies and action plansGuidelines and codesGlobal compacts

  • WHO Global Strategy on health, environment, and climate change (2020).

  • WHO Global Strategy for food safety (2022–2030).

  • Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan (2013–2030).

  • WHO Global Action Plan to Promote the Health of Refugees and Migrants (2019–2023).

  • International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (1981).

  • WHO Guidelines for Malaria (first issued 2021).

  • WHO Guidelines on the Management of Chronic Pain in Children (2021).

  • WHO Consolidated Guidelines on Tuberculosis (first issued 2011).

  • WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (2010).

  • Global Noncommunicable Disease Compact (2020–2030).

  • WHO Global Diabetes Compact (2021).

  • Global Health and Care Worker Compact (2022).