Connecting Health Systems Research Ethics to a Broader Health Equity Agenda
This editorial identifies three areas of ethical tension in health systems research: 1) the dominance of global targets in priority setting which may crowd out health systems research that is responsive to local needs in favour of research on service delivery and scale up of interventions geared to support the achievement of global goals like universal health coverage; 2) that capacity development in health systems research tends to focus at the individual and institutional level rather and not to focus at the health system level; and 3) the unequal allocation of health research resources between biomedical and non-biomedical research.
Pratt B. (2014) Connecting Health Stems Research Ethics to a Broader Heal Equity Agenda, The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 14, 2014 – Issue 2