Best Practices for Ethical Sharing of Individual-Level Health Research Data from Low- and Middle-Income Settings

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 302-313

  Bull, Susan ^a   Cheah, Phaik Yeong ^a,b   Denny, Spencer ^c   Jao, Irene ^d   Marsh, Vicki ^a,d   Merson, Laura ^e   Shah More, Neena ^f   Nhan, Le Nguyen Thanh ^g   Osrin, David ^h   Tangseefa, Decha ⁱ   Wassenaar, Douglas ^c   Parker, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^e OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^f Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action (SNEHA)   (India)

^g CHILDREN S HOSPITAL 1   (Viet Nam)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

biomedical research ethics; clinical research; data release; data sharing; health policy; low income countries; middle income countries; privacy; research data; research governance; trust

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHICS; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSONNEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRUST;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INCOME; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TRUST;

EID: 84947706186     PISSN: 15562646     EISSN: 15562654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1556264615594606     Document Type: Article

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