Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Subject "Ethics"
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Conducting research with African elderly persons: Is their vulnerability a concern to researchers?
(AFAHPER-SD, 2013)The African elderly population is currently estimated to be slightly over 38 million. In order to provide best practice and quality management strategies, health care professionals need to conduct research that can assist ... -
Ethical considerations in using student data in an era of ‘big data’
(2015)Learning with technology enables the collection of data on students at a level unprecedented in face-to-face tuition and paper-based academic administration. Universities see the advantage in tracking students’ engagement ... -
Ethical misconduct by registered physiotherapists in South Africa (2007– 2013): A mixed methods approach
(PubMed, 2015)Background: The role of ethics in a medical context is to protect the interests of patients. Thus, it is critically important to understand the guilty verdicts related to professional standard breaches and ethics misconduct ... -
How to use relevant data for maximal benefit with minimal risk: Digital health data governance to protect vulnerable populations in low-income and middle- income countries
(BMJ Global Health, 2019)Globally, the volume of private and personal digital data has massively increased, accompanied by rapid expansion in the generation and use of digital health data. These technological advances promise increased opportunity for ... -
Integrating health technology assessment and the right to health in South Africa: a qualitative content analysis of substantive values in landmark judicial decisions
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)The World Health Assembly has encouraged WHO member-states to establish capacity in health technology assessment (HTA) as a support for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). Simultaneously, the WHO has stated that UHC ... -
Occupational therapy students’ perspectives of ethics in two countries: South Africa and the United States of America
(International Journal of Health Sciences, 2019)Objectives: Worldwide, health-care students, including occupational therapy students undergo ethics training. Ethics training facilitates students’ critical thinking, objective analysis and clinical reasoning skills to ... -
Operational framework for rural hospitals during a pandemic
(Taylor and Francis, 2021)It is now evident that a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has developed. The unfortunate reality is that those in rural areas may be impacted the hardest. Ethical decision making may look the same for rural areas as ... -
School tuck shops in South Africa—an ethical appraisal
(MedPharm Publications, 2017)It can be postulated that schools have an ethical responsibility to protect children from an unhealthy food environment. Against the backdrop of stunting, overweight and micronutrient deficiencies prevalent in South African ... -
Seven year overview (2007-2013) of ethical transgressions by registered healthcare professionals in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2016)A move has taken place internationally in the delivery and "consumption" of health care where if clients and patients (health care consumers) hold the opinion that the health care professionals/providers' behaviour has ... -
Treating an intervention level 1 patient: futile or brave?
(Medpharm Publications (Pty) Ltd, 2013)An ethical dilemma describes conflicting opinions by different members of the care team. This article focuses on AJ, a five-year-old child with cerebral palsy, who was born deaf and blind as a result of having contracted ...