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How to navigate the application of ethics norms in global health research: reflections based on qualitative research conducted with people with disabilities in Uganda
BackgroundAs Canadian global health researchers who conducted a qualitative study with adults with and without disabilities in Uganda, we obtained...
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Environmental Health (The Exposome)
The exposome concept was introduced by Christopher Wild, a molecular epidemiologist, in 2005. He defined it as the totality of life-course...
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Aging, Health, and Gender
Japanese men and women enjoy high levels of life expectancy and health expectancy when compared with international standards. Relatively little is...
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What Are Health Disparities?
Many racial and ethnicBig data minority groupsMinority groups have poor health outcomes. These health disparitiesHealth disparities are driven by the...
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Healthy Eating Policy: Racial Liberalism, Global Connections and Contested Science
The challenges to designing and implementing ethically and politically meaningful eating policies are many and complex. This article provides a brief...
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Beyond Public Health and Private Choice: Breastfeeding, Embodiment and Public Health Ethics
The key objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of acknowledging breastfeeding as an embodied social practice within interventions...
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Is Global Democracy Desirable?
Time has come to confront the question whether global democracy is desirable in its own right. Given that a world state exists, ruled by an...
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What makes a health system good? From cost-effectiveness analysis to ethical improvement in health systems
Fair allocation of scarce healthcare resources has been much studied within philosophy and bioethics, but analysis has focused on a narrow range of...
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The rise of multi-stakeholderism, the power of ultra-processed food corporations, and the implications for global food governance: a network analysis
The rise of multi-stakeholder institutions (MIs) involving the ultra-processed food (UPF) industry has raised concerns among food and public health...
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Ethics and non-evidence based therapies: Portuguese perspective in a global setting
A contemporary serious lack of scientific knowledge by the general public and many decision-makers is now quite perceptible, both globally and in...
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The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research
Online crowdsourcing platforms have rapidly become a popular source of data collection. Despite the various advantages these platforms offer, there...
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Introduction: Research Ethics and Health Policy in Epidemics and Pandemics
Global health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic are contexts in which it is critical to draw upon learning from prior research and to conduct...
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UK health researchers’ considerations of the environmental impacts of their data-intensive practices and its relevance to health inequities
BackgroundThe health sector aims to improve health outcomes and access to healthcare. At the same time, the sector relies on unsustainable...
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The future of FemTech ethics & privacy – a global perspective
We discuss the concept of women’s empowerment in FemTech, considering cultural and legal differences, ethical concerns, and legal consequences. We...
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Secondary Use of Health Data for Medical AI: A Cross-Regional Examination of Taiwan and the EU
This paper conducts a comparative analysis of data governance mechanisms concerning the secondary use of health data in Taiwan and the European Union...
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Are We Becoming More Ethical Consumers During the Global Pandemic? The Moderating Role of Negotiable Fate Across Cultures
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis which has witnessed consumers experiencing significant anxiety provoked by the threats to their health and...
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Comparability of health states
Measuring an individual’s health states presupposes the ability to compare them. I maintain that our ability to compare quantities or magnitudes of...
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Global Perspectives on Precision Medicine Ethical, Social and Public Health Implications
This book presents the promises of Precision Medicine (PM) and the challenges of its implementation in daily clinical routine, while addressing the...
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Climate Change and Global Justice
The problem of global climate change is a complex problem for several reasons, not the least of which is its international character. As such,...
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Climate Change and Global Justice
The problem of global climate change is a complex problem for several reasons, not the least of which is its international character. As such,...