Untangling the ethical intersection of epidemiology, human subjects research, and public health.
Purpose: Members of the American College of Epidemiology (ACE) Ethics Committee identified current ethics and epidemiology topic areas to consider for further discussion, consultation, teaching opportunities, and conference presentation. This article reflects on the activities of the Committee at th...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Epidemiology Vol. 34; pp. 1 - 6 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , , |
| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
Jun2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=136744319&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 136744319 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10472797 J8R jtl: Annals of Epidemiology issn: 10472797 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2019 vid: 34 pid: 467 pub: Elsevier B.V. place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 136744319 136744319 NLM31005553 10.1016/j.annepidem.2019.03.009 NLM31005553 136744319 ppf: 1 ppct: 5 formats: tig: atl: Untangling the ethical intersection of epidemiology, human subjects research, and public health. aug: au: Salerno, Jennifer Peters, Edward S. Pinney, Susan M. Morain, Stephanie Hlaing, WayWay M. affil: Aging, Community and Health Research Unit, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada sug: subj: Ethics Committees Public Health Ethical Issues Epidemiology Ethical Issues Research Subjects Epidemiology Standards Ethics, Medical Funding Source ab: Purpose: Members of the American College of Epidemiology (ACE) Ethics Committee identified current ethics and epidemiology topic areas to consider for further discussion, consultation, teaching opportunities, and conference presentation. This article reflects on the activities of the Committee at the ACE Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 24-26, 2017.Methods: The overall aim for the Ethics Committee was to engage members of the College and other audiences and highlight the evolution of ethics and epidemiology since the inception of the original Ethics Guidelines published by the ACE Ethics and Standards of Practice Committee in 2000. The Ethics Committee organized a symposium session at the 2017 Annual Meeting of ACE on the ethics of human subjects research as it relates to specialized areas of epidemiology and the intersecting role of public health. This article presents a summary and further discussion of that symposium session.Results: Three topic areas were presented: an overview of ethics and epidemiology (E.S.P.), very high biomarker levels in environmental epidemiology research (S.M.P.), and the interface of epidemiology, human subjects research, and public health interventions (S.M.). This article begins by reviewing the foundations of epidemiology and public health and the well-known ethical principles of human subjects research. Then, it considers the ethical considerations in the use of population registry data in epidemiological research, environmental epidemiology, and epidemic surveillance and response. This article may form the basis of teaching of ethics principles related to epidemiology and public health and may serve as a companion piece to the original ACE Ethics Guidelines.Conclusions: Researchers are increasingly faced with ethical considerations in diverse, nontraditional, and specialized areas of epidemiology and public health. This article illustrates these challenges with real-world examples of clinical and population registry data, the study of environmental biomarkers, and Zika virus epidemic; it also reviews relevant ethical principles underpinning these examples and identifies where gaps in knowledge may exist. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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