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In this section, we summarize and discuss the ethical implications of the aforementioned trends and applications of using medical social media data in healthcare settings and collect implications towards the implementation to be further addressed in the future. Ethics concerns two basic practical problems of human life: (1) What is worth seeking—that is, what goals of life are good? and (2) What individuals are responsible for—that is, what duties should they recognize and attempt to fulfil [192]? Public health ethics deals with the specific moral questions regarding public actions for disease prevention, life elongation, or psychological and physical well-being. This is in contrast to medical ethics which concentrates on the relationship between patients and doctors. The issue of how ethical principles may be applied to Health Web Science is a current challenge for researchers, but also for health professionals and patients alike.
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Denecke, K. (2015). Ethics in Health Web Science. In: Health Web Science. Health Information Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20582-3_14
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