What is owed to the community before, during and following research: an ethical dialogue.
The paper briefly outlines some of the ethical issues involved in community-based research particularly in developing countries. It focuses on informed consent, confidentially and the obligations to the community or its members who participate in the study. Most ethical guidelines are focused on the individual participants. Yet increasingly the community may be the unit of study. More attention will need to be directed towards developing guidelines for community-based research.
Cash
Richard A
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Programme on Ethical Issues in International Health Research, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. racash@hsph.harvard.edu
D003142:Communication; D003256:Community Participation / Q000379:methods; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000941:ethics; D003906:Developing Countries; D032984:Ethics, Research; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations / Q000941:ethics