Health matters - in all communities, all over the world. Access to health services, quality care, and safe medical practices and equipment is important to people everywhere.
We have over 1200 standards that focus on health in many sectors, ranging from dentistry to medical devices, and health informatics to traditional medicines.
Our standards help improve health in many ways, including:
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Quality and safety are non-negotiable in the medical devices industry. ISO 13485:2016, Quality management systems -- Requirements for regulatory purposes intends to help keep that level of quality up to scratch.
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Cooking shouldn’t kill, but for far too many people in developing countries, this is exactly what happens. ISO has joined the global community in working to create and sustain a thriving market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions. Together, we can make change happen.
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A standard for quality management systems specific to the medical device industry is under review, and just moved a step closer to completion.
More than 1 200 of our 19000 standards are related to health. Find out more about the sectors our health standards cover in this factsheet.
They are developed by groups of experts called technical committees, each concentrating on a specific subject. One way to find standards on a particular topic is to search the work of a particular technical committee. Click on the links below to see the standards published by each technical committee.
