Scenarios in medical ethics-6: Public health research

Public health ethics considers moral dimensions of public health practice and research. While medical ethics dates back hundreds of years, and bioethics writings emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, ‘public health ethics’, articulated as such, did not appear significantly in the literature for several more decades. There has been great interest recently in defining public health ethics, examining how it resembles or differs from medical ethics or bioethics, outlining frameworks and codes, and providing conceptual and practical guidance on how ethics can inform public health practice and research. This chapter describes the emergence of public health ethics; work in bioethics with relevance for public health; the relevance of social justice theory in addressing public health problems; and discusses literature on ethics and public health research, including whether public health research ethics might differ from ethical guidance for other human research. The chapter concludes with an overview of ethics issues related to genetic research and emerging technologies.

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Supplemental Material for Developing Expert Consensus on How to Address Weight Stigma in Public Health Research and Practice: A Delphi Study

Stigma and Health ◽

10.1037/sah0000273.supp ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Research ◽

Delphi Study ◽

Public Health Research ◽

Weight Stigma ◽

Expert Consensus ◽

Research And Practice

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Studies on "Mental Health" in Public Health Research

Health & Welfare ◽

10.23948/kshw.2019.03.21.1.121 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 121-148

Author(s):

Eun-Chung Lim

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Mental Health ◽

Health Research ◽

Public Health Research

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Cancer registration, public health and the reform of the European data protection framework: Abandoning or improving European public health research?

European Journal of Cancer ◽

10.1016/j.ejca.2013.09.005 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 51 (9) ◽

pp. 1028-1038 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Mette Rye Andersen ◽

Hans H. Storm

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Data Protection ◽

Health Research ◽

Public Health Research ◽

Cancer Registration ◽

European Data ◽

European Public

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Utilizing asynchronous email interviews for health research: overview of benefits and drawbacks

BMC Research Notes ◽

10.1186/s13104-021-05547-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Michelle Amri ◽

Christina Angelakis ◽

Dilani Logan

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Data Collection ◽

Data Quality ◽

Health Research ◽

Geographic Location ◽

Public Health Research ◽

Data Accuracy ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Snowball Sampling ◽

Face To Face

Abstract Objective Through collating observations from various studies and complementing these findings with one author’s study, a detailed overview of the benefits and drawbacks of asynchronous email interviewing is provided. Through this overview, it is evident there is great potential for asynchronous email interviews in the broad field of health, particularly for studies drawing on expertise from participants in academia or professional settings, those across varied geographical settings (i.e. potential for global public health research), and/or in circumstances when face-to-face interactions are not possible (e.g. COVID-19). Results Benefits of asynchronous email interviewing and additional considerations for researchers are discussed around: (i) access transcending geographic location and during restricted face-to-face communications; (ii) feasibility and cost; (iii) sampling and inclusion of diverse participants; (iv) facilitating snowball sampling and increased transparency; (v) data collection with working professionals; (vi) anonymity; (vii) verification of participants; (viii) data quality and enhanced data accuracy; and (ix) overcoming language barriers. Similarly, potential drawbacks of asynchronous email interviews are also discussed with suggested remedies, which centre around: (i) time; (ii) participant verification and confidentiality; (iii) technology and sampling concerns; (iv) data quality and availability; and (v) need for enhanced clarity and precision.

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