OBJECTIVE To assess the state of national health research systems of countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. DESIGN A questionnaire-based survey METHODS: Structured questionnaires were used to solicit health research systems' relevant information from key informants in each country. SETTING Forty-six Member States of the WHO African Region. PARTICIPANTS Key inform...

Students and researchers might have diverse ideas about motivations for citizen science (CS) projects. To prevent uncertainty, we address ethical concerns emerging in CS projects general, specifically, the transferability of skills knowledge gained within academia (e.g. through studying research conduct). We dedicate these Guidelines Research Ethics Integrity Citizen Science primarily to Master...

R EGISTERED DIETITIAN NUTRItionists (RDNs) are regularly involved with activities requiring decision making with ethical implications. Typical and significant ethical decision-making activities are related to selecting medical food supplements and enteral and infant formula, and choosing the durable medical equipment (DME) vendor that will be providing the formulas in the home. At times and in ...

background: dealing with ethical considerations is a major component of health technology assessment (hta) definitions. objectives: present study aimed to explore and describe the manner of ethical analyses in hta reports and the effects it had on hta-related decision making around the world.   methods: by considering the contextual milieu of reports and searching for ethical themes and subject...

extended abstract 1- introduction ethics is the branch of philosophy that involves systematizing and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. not that long ago, academicians were often cautious about airing the ethical dilemmas they faced in their research and academic work, but that environment is changing today (gharamaleki, 2004). research ethics involves the application of fundamen...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT Although increasing attention has been given to ethical consumption (Devinney, et al 2006; McDonald et al. 2006; Shaw et al. 2005; Szmigin and Carrigan 2005), less is known as to how such decisions are thought through. It is clear that ethical considerations are entering consumer purchase decisions but there is still a ‘disconnect between the issues consumers claim to care abo...