Ethical considerations in health systems research
Based on the presumption that certain kinds of ethical issues may be particularly relevant to and salient in health systems research, this chapter explores several of these issues. We outline eight areas of ethical relevance that are particularly salient in health systems research (though not unique to health systems research) that may require special attention during ethics review, especially in LMICs. These include research subjects, informed consent, units of intervention and observation, risk assessment, defining benefits and beneficiaries, nature of interventions and appropriate controls and comparisons.
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