Maria W Merritt
Biographic Data
| ID | 232172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria W Merritt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria W |
| FAMILY NAME | Merritt |
| SIGNATURE | MERRITT M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0651-2405 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Group-based trajectory models of integrated vaccine delivery and equity in low- and middle-income countries
Integrated vaccine delivery is most strongly associated with improvements in vaccination equity in settings with high baseline levels of inequity. Continued scholarship is needed to further characterize the relationship between integration and health equity, as well as to improve measurement of vaccination coverage and integration
Capacity for wonder among medical students
Objective The capacity for wonder (CfW) is a personal disposition related to lifelong learning and moral character development, two highly valued characteristics of health professionals. We previously developed and validated a CfW measure among college students. Here we describe how the scale performs among medical students.Methods We invited all students at a top-tier U.S. medical school (N = 477) to participate in an online survey including the…
Disadvantage and the experience of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
In the present research, we aimed to demonstrate how exploring patients’ treatment experiences may help decision makers better understand and pay attention to social impacts of health interventions. We take multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) as a paradigm case of a disease that disproportionately affects people already living with disadvantage and for which treatment itself is extremely burdensome. We conducted a total of 140 in-depth int…
Integrating social justice concerns into economic evaluation for healthcare and public health
Exploring Meaning and Types of Trust in Maternity Care in Peri-Urban Kenya
Trust offers a distinctive lens on facility responsiveness during labor and birth. Though acknowledged in prior literature, limited work exists linking conceptual and empirical spheres. This study explores trust in the maternity setting in Kenya through a theoretically driven qualitative approach. Focus groups ( n = 8, N = 70) with women who recently gave birth (WRB), pregnant women, and male partners, and in-depth-interviews ( n = 33) with WRB, …
Towards deep inclusion for equity-oriented health research priority-setting
Investing in Justice
It has been suggested that initiatives to eradicate specific communicable diseases need to be informed by eradication investment cases to assess the feasibility, costs, and consequences of eradication compared with elimination or control. A methodological challenge of eradication investment cases is how to account for the ethical importance of the benefits, burdens, and distributions thereof that are salient in people’s experiences of the disease…
Provision of Community‐wide Benefits in Public Health Intervention Research
Background: This article describes the types of community‐wide benefits provided by investigators conducting public health research in South Asia as well as their self‐reported reasons for providing such benefits. Methods: We conducted 52 in‐depth interviews to explore how public health investigators in low‐resource settings make decisions about the delivery of ancillary care to research subjects. In 39 of the interviews respondents described pro…
Ancillary Care in Public Health Intervention Research in Low-Resource Settings
Little is known about researchers' practices regarding the provision of ancillary care (AC) in public health intervention studies they have conducted and the factors that influence their decisions about whether to provide ancillary care in low-resource settings. We conducted 52 in-person in-depth interviews with public health researchers. Data analysis was iterative and led to the identification of themes and patterns among themes. We found that …
Character
Moral psychology is central to modern virtue ethics, whose proponents have claimed greater psychological realism as a theoretical advantage. Yet much empirical research in personality and social psychology appears to unsettle familiar notions of character, prompting critics to advance skeptical views of character as portrayed in philosophical virtue ethics. In response, some defenders of virtue ethics have acknowledged the importance of incorpora…
Ancillary Care in Community-Based Public Health Intervention Research
Community-based public health intervention research in developing countries typically takes place not in clinics but in people's homes and other living spaces. Research subjects and their communities may lack adequate nutrition, clean water, sanitation, and basic preventive and therapeutic services. Researchers often encounter unmet health needs in their interactions with individual subjects and need ethical guidelines to help them decide how to …
Emotional Reasoning
Exploring Meaning and Types of Trust in Maternity Care in Peri-Urban Kenya
Trust offers a distinctive lens on facility responsiveness during labor and birth. Though acknowledged in prior literature, limited work exists linking conceptual and empirical spheres. This study explores trust in the maternity setting in Kenya through a theoretically driven qualitative approach. Focus groups ( n = 8, N = 70) with women who recently gave birth (WRB), pregnant women, and male partners, and in-depth-interviews ( n = 33) with WRB, …
Towards deep inclusion for equity-oriented health research priority-setting
Investing in Justice
It has been suggested that initiatives to eradicate specific communicable diseases need to be informed by eradication investment cases to assess the feasibility, costs, and consequences of eradication compared with elimination or control. A methodological challenge of eradication investment cases is how to account for the ethical importance of the benefits, burdens, and distributions thereof that are salient in people’s experiences of the disease…
Ancillary Care in Public Health Intervention Research in Low-Resource Settings
Little is known about researchers' practices regarding the provision of ancillary care (AC) in public health intervention studies they have conducted and the factors that influence their decisions about whether to provide ancillary care in low-resource settings. We conducted 52 in-person in-depth interviews with public health researchers. Data analysis was iterative and led to the identification of themes and patterns among themes. We found that …
Emotional Reasoning
Character
Moral psychology is central to modern virtue ethics, whose proponents have claimed greater psychological realism as a theoretical advantage. Yet much empirical research in personality and social psychology appears to unsettle familiar notions of character, prompting critics to advance skeptical views of character as portrayed in philosophical virtue ethics. In response, some defenders of virtue ethics have acknowledged the importance of incorpora…
Ancillary Care in Community-Based Public Health Intervention Research
Community-based public health intervention research in developing countries typically takes place not in clinics but in people's homes and other living spaces. Research subjects and their communities may lack adequate nutrition, clean water, sanitation, and basic preventive and therapeutic services. Researchers often encounter unmet health needs in their interactions with individual subjects and need ethical guidelines to help them decide how to …
Ancillary Care in Public Health Intervention Research in Low-Resource Settings
Little is known about researchers' practices regarding the provision of ancillary care (AC) in public health intervention studies they have conducted and the factors that influence their decisions about whether to provide ancillary care in low-resource settings. We conducted 52 in-person in-depth interviews with public health researchers. Data analysis was iterative and led to the identification of themes and patterns among themes. We found that …
Provision of Community‐wide Benefits in Public Health Intervention Research
Background: This article describes the types of community‐wide benefits provided by investigators conducting public health research in South Asia as well as their self‐reported reasons for providing such benefits. Methods: We conducted 52 in‐depth interviews to explore how public health investigators in low‐resource settings make decisions about the delivery of ancillary care to research subjects. In 39 of the interviews respondents described pro…
Investing in Justice
It has been suggested that initiatives to eradicate specific communicable diseases need to be informed by eradication investment cases to assess the feasibility, costs, and consequences of eradication compared with elimination or control. A methodological challenge of eradication investment cases is how to account for the ethical importance of the benefits, burdens, and distributions thereof that are salient in people’s experiences of the disease…
Towards deep inclusion for equity-oriented health research priority-setting
Integrating social justice concerns into economic evaluation for healthcare and public health
Exploring Meaning and Types of Trust in Maternity Care in Peri-Urban Kenya
Trust offers a distinctive lens on facility responsiveness during labor and birth. Though acknowledged in prior literature, limited work exists linking conceptual and empirical spheres. This study explores trust in the maternity setting in Kenya through a theoretically driven qualitative approach. Focus groups ( n = 8, N = 70) with women who recently gave birth (WRB), pregnant women, and male partners, and in-depth-interviews ( n = 33) with WRB, …
Disadvantage and the experience of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
In the present research, we aimed to demonstrate how exploring patients’ treatment experiences may help decision makers better understand and pay attention to social impacts of health interventions. We take multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) as a paradigm case of a disease that disproportionately affects people already living with disadvantage and for which treatment itself is extremely burdensome. We conducted a total of 140 in-depth int…
Capacity for wonder among medical students
Objective The capacity for wonder (CfW) is a personal disposition related to lifelong learning and moral character development, two highly valued characteristics of health professionals. We previously developed and validated a CfW measure among college students. Here we describe how the scale performs among medical students.Methods We invited all students at a top-tier U.S. medical school (N = 477) to participate in an online survey including the…
Group-based trajectory models of integrated vaccine delivery and equity in low- and middle-income countries
Integrated vaccine delivery is most strongly associated with improvements in vaccination equity in settings with high baseline levels of inequity. Continued scholarship is needed to further characterize the relationship between integration and health equity, as well as to improve measurement of vaccination coverage and integration
Medicine (8 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (6 works) · Health care (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)