Background The generation of evidence is integral to the work of public health and health
service providers. Traditionally, ethics has been addressed differently in research projects …

The mission of public health is “assuring conditions in which people can be healthy,”
through its core functions of “assessment, policy development, and assurance”(IOM, 1988 …

Abstract The Alberta Research Ethics Community Consensus Initiative (ARECCI) is a unique
Canadian initiative that addresses the ethical oversight of two main categories of health …

One plausible way to structure a narrative about the origin and development of medical
ethics is to see much of it as a commentary on the ethical issues that have arisen in …

Background The boundaries between health-related research and practice have become
blurred as initiatives traditionally considered to be practice (eg, quality improvement …

Ethics is 'a generic term for various ways of understanding and examining the moral
life'(Beauchamp and Childress, 2001: 1). Research ethics is its application to the conduct of …

Abstract The Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans
(TCPS) was first developed to establish a standard of practice in research ethics by the three …

The authors explore five dimensions of research ethics:(1) normative ethics, which includes
meta-ethical questions;(2) compliance with regulations, statutes, and institutional policies;(3) …

Background: Research ethics review practices vary considerably across countries and this
variability poses a challenge for international research programmes. Although published …

The scope of research that now requires research ethics review can encompass a vast array
of designs, methods, disciplines and sub-disciplines including qualitative investigations in …