Prioritarian principles for digital health in low resource settings.

Autor:	Winters N; Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK niall.winters@education.ox.ac.uk., Venkatapuram S; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London, UK., Geniets A; Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK., Wynne-Bannister E; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Journal of medical ethics [J Med Ethics] 2020 Apr; Vol. 46 (4), pp. 259-264. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jan 16.
DOI:	10.1136/medethics-2019-105468
Abstrakt:	This theoretical paper argues for prioritarianism as an ethical underpinning for digital health in contexts of extreme disadvantage. In support of this claim, the paper develops three prioritarian principles for making ethical decisions for digital health programme design, grounded in the normative position that the greater the need (of the marginalised), the stronger the moral claim. The principles are positioned as an alternative view to the prevailing utilitarian approach to digital health, which the paper argues is not sufficient to address the needs of the worst off. As researchers of digital health, we must ensure that the most globally marginalised are not overlooked by overtly technocentric implementation practices. Consequently, the paper concludes by advocating for use of the three principles to support stronger critical reflection on the ethics involved in the design and implementation of digital health programmes. Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared. (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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