ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2019
Ethical Considerations for Movement Mapping to Identify Disease Transmission Hotspots.
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- Ethics, Integrity, and Retributions of Digital Detection Surveillance Systems for Infectious Diseases: Systematic Literature Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
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- Evaluating How Smartphone Contact Tracing Technology Can Reduce the Spread of Infectious Diseases: The Case of COVID-19.IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions · 2020Article
- Ethical issues in the COVID-19 pandemic control preparedness in a developing economy.The Pan African medical journal · 2020Article
- COVID-19: Advancing Empirical Bioethics Research.AJOB empirical bioethicsArticle
- Primary Care Physicians' and Patients' Perspectives on Equity and Health Security of Infectious Disease Digital Surveillance.Annals of family medicineArticle
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Abstract
Traditional public health methods for detecting infectious disease transmission, such as contact tracing and molecular epidemiology, are time-consuming and costly. Information and communication technologies, such as global positioning systems, smartphones, and mobile phones, offer opportunities for novel approaches to identifying transmission hotspots. However, mapping the movements of potentially infected persons comes with ethical challenges. During an interdisciplinary meeting of researchers, ethicists, data security specialists, information and communication technology experts, epidemiologists, microbiologists, and others, we arrived at suggestions to mitigate the ethical concerns of movement mapping. These suggestions include a template Data Protection Impact Assessment that follows European Union General Data Protection Regulations.
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