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Ethics in Public Health Research

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Scientific research has produced substantial social benefits. It has also posed some troubling ethical questions. This chapter outlines the basic ethical principles relevant to research involving human participants and provides brief case studies through which to explore those principles and the arguments surrounding them in the context of international collaborative health research. The aim of this chapter is to generate awareness and openness of discussion that may engage researchers from high-income and low- and middle-income countries in an effort to increase understanding and promote guidelines that acknowledge both similarities and differences. The topics covered represent a wide range of ethical issues in public health research.

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  1. Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Francie van Zijl Drive, Parow, Cape Town, South Africa

    Tanya Doherty

  2. World Bank, Washington, DC, USA

    Mickey Chopra

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  1. World Food Programme , Rome, Italy

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  2. School of Public Health, University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Douglas Taren

  3. World Food Programme, Nutrition Division , Rome, Italy

    Martin W. Bloem

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Doherty, T., Chopra, M. (2017). Ethics in Public Health Research. In: de Pee, S., Taren, D., Bloem, M. (eds) Nutrition and Health in a Developing World . Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43739-2_36

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