Prioritarian principles for digital health in low resource settings
| Autor: | Emma Wynne-Bannister, Niall Winters, Anne Geniets, Sridhar Venkatapuram |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Health (social science) Decision Making Morals 0603 philosophy ethics and religion health workforce 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine information technology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Social Justice Humans distributive justice 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Distributive justice Disadvantage public health ethics business.industry Health Policy Information technology 06 humanities and the arts Digital health Issues ethics and legal aspects philosophical ethics Extended Essay Position (finance) Normative Prioritarianism Engineering ethics 060301 applied ethics business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Medical Ethics |
| ISSN: | 1473-4257 0306-6800 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/medethics-2019-105468 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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