Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Georgios Dimitrios Karampatakis, Helen E. Wood, Chris J. Griffiths, Nathan C. Lea, Richard E. Ashcroft, Bill Day, Neil Walker, Neil S. Coulson, Anna De Simoni
Summary: Promoting online peer support in statutory health services requires ethical considerations and evidence-based knowledge. Currently, there is limited research on the effectiveness and ethical concerns of digital interventions in primary care, especially regarding the use of social media. Existing literature primarily focuses on ethical issues with apps, electronic health records, and video consultations, neglecting digital social interventions and primary care settings specifically.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Wu Zeng, Hadia Samaha, Michel Yao, Steve Ahuka-Mundeke, Thomas Wilkinson, Thibaut Jombart, Dominique Baabo, Jean-Pierre Lokonga, Sylvain Yuma, Linda Mobula-Shufelt
Summary: The 10th Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo attracted significant international attention. Over two years, more than US$1 billion was invested in Ebola control. This outbreak was the first to occur in a conflict area, leading to a shift in strategy from a public health response to a multisectoral humanitarian response. Various disease control and mitigation activities were implemented, and their unit costs were estimated to provide crucial information for future planning and prioritization.
Article
Economics
Darin Christensen, Oeindrila Dube, Johannes Haushofer, Bilal Siddiqi, Maarten Voors
Summary: Research suggests that skepticism about the quality of health systems in developing countries contributes to higher mortality rates. By improving the perceived quality of healthcare through interventions, it is possible to promote community health and enhance the resilience of health systems during crises like epidemics.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Carrie Eggers, Lise Martel, Amber Dismer, Ruth Kallay, Dean Sayre, Mary Choi, Salomon Corvil, Almamy Kaba, Bakary Keita, Lamarana Diallo, Mamadou Moussa Balde, Mariama Bah, Sekou Mohamed Camara, Enogo Koivogui, Joel Montgomery, Sakoba Keita
Summary: In 2017, the national agency for health security (ANSS) in Guinea implemented DHIS2 as the Ministry of Health national surveillance system to capture and report disease data. DHIS2 Tracker was later used to collect individual-level data for epidemic-prone diseases, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. An updated Tracker module was developed to meet the needs of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2021, and it has since been expanded for future viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniella Turetski, Renante Rondina, Jordan Hutchings, Bing Feng, Dilip Soman
Summary: This study examines the acceptability of choice architecture interventions and explores how it is influenced by the type of intervention used, the domain of implementation, and the explanation provided. The findings suggest that acceptability, perceived threat to autonomy, and belief in intervention success vary depending on the intervention type and implementation domain. The rationale for intervention use also impacts acceptability. The study highlights the need for individual analysis rather than generalizations in discussions about the ethics of choice architecture.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Allison Langer, Peter J. Marshall, Shelly Levy-Tzedek
Summary: Social robots have the potential to enhance education, rehabilitative care, and leisure activities for children, but the long-term effects of child-robot interaction on socio-emotional development remain unclear. This review summarizes predictions and expectations of stakeholders and empirical research on the impact of child-robot interaction on children's social behavior and emotional expression. Research design recommendations are provided to further understand the effects of child-robot interaction.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Claudia Fontsere, Peter Frandsen, Jessica Hernandez-Rodriguez, Jonas Niemann, Camilla Hjorth Scharff-Olsen, Dominique Vallet, Pascaline Le Gouar, Nelly Menard, Arcadi Navarro, Hans R. Siegismund, Christina Hvilsom, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Martin Kuhlwilm, David Hughes, Tomas Marques-Bonet
Summary: This study investigated the genetic impact of an Ebola outbreak on the western lowland gorilla population, finding no changes in genetic diversity or microbial community composition between survivors and non-survivors. Although limited by low power, the study identified six nominally significant missense mutations in four genes that may be linked to increased survival chances.
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Jiaobing Tu, Wei Gao
Summary: Wearable technologies show great promise in disease diagnosis and patient care, but only a few devices have been commercialized and approved for medical use. There is a gap between current standards and protocols to guide ethical conduct in human research, which may lead to irresponsible behavior by researchers in the field of wearable technologies.
ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jean Ndjomou, Scott Shearrer, Brendan Karlstrand, Carmen Asbun, Jesse Coble, Jane S. Alam, Mar P. Mar, Lance Presser, Scott Poynter, Julia M. Michelotti, Nadia Wauquier, Casey Ross, Sharon Altmann
Summary: The West Africa Ebola virus outbreak from 2014 to 2016 revealed the weaknesses in the public health systems of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, including inadequate training and equipment. Affected countries urgently sought international assistance to strengthen their public health systems. A successful laboratory capacity building program in Guinea improved bio-surveillance capabilities.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Changyu Wang, Siru Liu, Hao Yang, Jiulin Guo, Yuxuan Wu, Jialin Liu
Summary: ChatGPT shows promise in healthcare, but addressing potential ethical challenges is essential to prevent harm. Legal, humanistic, algorithmic, and informational perspectives all play a role in ensuring the responsible use of ChatGPT in healthcare.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2023)
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Mark A. Hall, David M. Studdert
Summary: When considering vaccine passport certification, policymakers should take into account privileged activities and the identity of the regulator.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2021)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Nathan A. Shlobin, Jeffrey R. Clark, Justin M. Campbell, Mark Bernstein, Babak S. Jahromi, Matthew B. Potts
Summary: This article outlines the application of bioethics in stroke care, discusses key ethical issues and special situations, and proposes methods to improve ethical decision-making for patients.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Amy Whitesell, Nirma D. Bustamante, Miles Stewart, Jeff Freeman, Amber M. Dismer, Walter Alarcon, Aaron Kofman, Amen Ben Hamida, Stuart T. Nichol, Inger Damon, Dana L. Haberling, Mory Keita, Gisele Mbuyi, Gregory Armstrong, Derek Juang, Jason Dana, Mary J. Choi
Summary: During an Ebola virus outbreak, a bilingual smartphone application was developed to assist field investigators in determining the exposure window of confirmed cases. Endorsed by the DRC Ministry of Health, the application has been incorporated into trainings for field staff and continues to be downloaded even after the outbreak was resolved.
Article
Economics
Elisa M. Maffioli
Summary: This study finds that political incentives may affect the government's response to a health epidemic and subsequently influence citizens' voting behavior. Misallocation of resources towards electoral swing villages during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia led to voters rewarding the national incumbent party in those areas. Voters may react to resource allocation by showing support or discontent towards the government in power.
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dawn M. Zimmerman, Emily Hardgrove, Sara Sullivan, Stephanie Mitchell, Eddy Kambale, Julius Nziza, Benard Ssebide, Chantal Shalukoma, Mike Cranfield, Pranav S. Pandit, Sean P. Troth, Taylor Callicrate, Philip Miller, Kirsten Gilardi, Robert C. Lacy
Summary: Ebola virus is highly lethal for great apes, and an outbreak could severely impact the endangered mountain gorilla population. Simulation modeling suggests that contact rates among gorilla groups are high enough for rapid spread of Ebola, leading to low survival rates. Vaccination strategies have limited success in preventing widespread infection, but vaccinating at least half the habituated gorillas within 3 weeks of the first case can result in survival rates greater than 50%.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)