Wassenaar D. and Rattani A. (2016) What Makes Health Systems Research in Developing Countries Ethical? Application of the Emanuel Framework for Clinical Research to Health Systems Research, Developing World Bioethics, Volume 16, Issue 3December 2016, Pages 133–13 The growing importance of health systems research has opened debate about appropriate ethical frameworks and guidelines for the ethical […]
Close relationships between researchers and participants engaged in a feminist participatory action research project have brought joy and insight, but also challenges. Through the project we collaborate to enhance participants’ careers and, among some, develop feminist consciousness. In this paper we discuss methodological and ethical issues that derive from the closeness of the relationships between […]
Carrying out research on the mechanisms and treatments of disease in sub-Saharan Africa is often conducted in the most traditional and patriarchal communities. These social structures complicate such processes as gaining consent and giving participants feedback on the findings. But researchers have begun to learn an important lesson: by making an effort to better understand […]
An increasing volume of qualitative research and articles about qualitative methods has been published recently in medical journals. However, compared with the extensive debate in social sciences literature, there has been little consideration in medical journals of the ethical issues surrounding qualitative research. A possible explanation for this lack of discussion is that it is […]
The movement for research transparency has gained irresistible momentum over the past decade. Although qualitative research is rarely published in the high-impact journals that have adopted, or are most likely to adopt, data sharing policies, qualitative researchers who publish work in these and similar venues will likely encounter questions about data sharing within the next […]
Benefit sharing in health research has been the focus of international debates for many years, particularly in developing countries. Whilst increasing attention is being given to frameworks that can guide researchers to determine levels of benefits to participants, there is little empirical research from developing countries on the practical application of these frameworks, including in […]
Recent scholarship has considered what, if anything, rich people owe to poor people to achieve justice in global health and the implications of this for international research. Yet this work has primarily focused on international clinical research. Health systems research is increasingly being performed in low- and middle-income countries and is essential to reducing global health disparities. […]
Luyckx V.A., Biller-Andorno N., Saxena A. and Tran N.T (2017) Health policy and systems research: towards a better understanding and review of ethical issues, BMJ Glob Health 2017;2:e000314 Given the focus on health systems in the post-millennium development goal era and moving towards the sustainable development goals, there is a compelling need for a common framework for health […]
In this blog Rosemary Morgan outlines the ways in which power and privilege can be manifested within the teaching of health systems research. This includes in teaching processes as well as institutions. It touches on efforts to decolonise curricula and whether traditional teaching reproduces inequities; explores how gender effects how students view their tutors; and introduces an […]
This chapter explores how gender analysis can be incorporated into health systems implementation research. This is the process of analysing how gendered power relations influence the implementation of an intervention, as well as the extent to which the research process itself progressively transforms gendered power relations, or at least does not exacerbate them. Gender is […]