Title |
What makes public health studies ethical? Dissolving the boundary between research and practice
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Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, August 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-15-61 |
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Authors |
Donald J Willison, Nancy Ondrusek, Angus Dawson, Claudia Emerson, Lorraine E Ferris, Raphael Saginur, Heather Sampson, Ross Upshur |
Abstract |
The generation of evidence is integral to the work of public health and health service providers. Traditionally, ethics has been addressed differently in research projects, compared with other forms of evidence generation, such as quality improvement, program evaluation, and surveillance, with review of non-research activities falling outside the purview of the research ethics board. However, the boundaries between research and these other evaluative activities are not distinct. Efforts to delineate a boundary - whether on grounds of primary purpose, temporality, underlying legal authority, departure from usual practice, or direct benefits to participants - have been unsatisfactory.Public Health Ontario has eschewed this distinction between research and other evaluative activities, choosing to adopt a common framework and process to guide ethical reflection on all public health evaluative projects throughout their lifecycle - from initial planning through to knowledge exchange. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 5 | 29% |
Canada | 3 | 18% |
United Kingdom | 2 | 12% |
Australia | 1 | 6% |
Unknown | 6 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 47% |
Members of the public | 5 | 29% |
Scientists | 3 | 18% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
New Zealand | 1 | 1% |
India | 1 | 1% |
United States | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 81 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 21% |
Researcher | 14 | 17% |
Student > Master | 13 | 15% |
Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 7% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 7% |
Other | 15 | 18% |
Unknown | 12 | 14% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 27% |
Social Sciences | 14 | 17% |
Philosophy | 7 | 8% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 6% |
Psychology | 4 | 5% |
Other | 15 | 18% |
Unknown | 16 | 19% |