论文信息 - Ethics, privacy and the legal framework governing medical data: opportunities or threats for biomedical and public health research?

Ethics, privacy and the legal framework governing medical data: opportunities or threats for biomedical and public health research?

Privacy is an important concern in any research programme that deals with personal medical data. In recent years, ethics and privacy have become key considerations when conducting any form of scientific research that involves personal data. These issues are now addressed in healthcare professional training programmes. Indeed, ethics, legal frameworks and privacy are often the subject of much confusion in discussions among healthcare professionals. They tend to group these different concepts under the same heading and delegate responsibility for “ethical” approval of their research programmes to ethics committees. Public health researchers therefore need to ask questions about how changes to legal frameworks and ethical codes governing privacy in the use of personal medical data are to be applied in practice. What types of data do these laws and codes cover? Who is involved? What restrictions and requirements apply to any research programme that involves medical data?

Alain Levêque | Yves Coppieters | A. Levêque | Y. Coppieters

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