ArticleJournal of medical ethics2024
Ethical implications of the widespread use of informal mHealth methods in Ghana.
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07173842 (Establishment of the NeuroPsyBiT-BD Omics Program), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Establishment of the NeuroPsyBiT-BD Omics Program: Development of a Turkish Bipolar Disorder Biobank Integrating Genomic and Epigenomic Profiling With Structured Clinical Phenotyping and Secure Data Infrastructure
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- Formalising remote consulting in primary care services for underserved populations with long-term conditions in sub-Saharan Africa: a process evaluation and stakeholder engagement.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review.BMC medical ethics · 2023Review
- Ethical Relativism and Circumstances of Social and Cultural Contingencies on Informed Consent in the Conduct of Research: Clinical Trials in Nigeria.Asian bioethics review · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundInformal mHealth is widely used by community health nurses in Ghana to extend healthcare delivery services to clients who otherwise might have been excluded from formal health systems or would experience significant barriers in their quest to access formal health services. The nurses use their private mobile phones or devices to make calls to their clients, health volunteers, colleagues or superiors. These phone calls are also reciprocal in nature. Besides, the parties exchange or share other health data and information through text messages, pictures, videos or voice clips. There are some ethical dimensions that are inherent in these practices that ought to be critically scrutinised by bioethicists.
objectiveThe author has argued in this paper that informal mHealth at large scale adoption in Ghana is associated with some bioethical challenges.
methodsThis essay was largely based on an analysis of an empirical study published by Hampshire
resultsWidespread adoption of Informal mHealth in Ghana is associated with privacy invasion of both the nurses and their clients, breaches confidentiality of the parties, discredits the validity of informed consent processes and may predispose the nurses to some other significant aggregated harms.
conclusionThe author affirms his partial support for a formalised adoption process of informal mHealth in Ghana but has reiterated that the current ethical challenges associated with informal mHealth in Ghana cannot escape all the debilitating bioethical challenges, even if it is formalised.
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