Ancillary Care in Community-Based Public Health Intervention Research

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ID11025262
AuthorsMaria W Merritt (0000-0003-0651-2405, Maria W. Merritt and Holly A. Taylor are with the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Holly A. Taylor is also with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Maria W. Merritt and Luke C. Mullany are with the Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.), Holly A Taylor (0000-0001-6811-9356, Maria W. Merritt and Holly A. Taylor are with the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Holly A. Taylor is also with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Maria W. Merritt and Luke C. Mullany are with the Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.), Luke C Mullany (0000-0003-4668-9803, Maria W. Merritt and Holly A. Taylor are with the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Holly A. Taylor is also with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Maria W. Merritt and Luke C. Mullany are with the Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.)
Year2010
Volume100
Issue2
Pages211-216
Publication date2010-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2009.168393
PMID20019298
PMCIDPMC2804641
OpenAlexW2127571584
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited13

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 respond. To what extent do researchers have an ethical obligation to provide ancillary care—health care beyond what is necessary to ensure scientific validity and subjects' safety? We discuss a case example from Nepal and propose a simple 2-step sequence of questions to aid decision making

Economic growth · Environmental health · Health care · Intervention (counseling) · Obligation · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Sanitation · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Global Health and Surgery · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Nursing

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