Research Ethics Committee (REC)
Regulatory Strategies: 1. minimal risk and risk proportionate to research benefit 2. informed consent 3. no undue influence and...
Theory of Regulation - Decentred Regulation
Key Characteristics: 1. The government do not, and proposition that they should not have a monopoly on regulation and that regulation...
Level of evidence
Level of evidence determines the current clinical practice: 1a: systemic reviews of randomised controlled trials 1b: individual...
Confidentiality - Important Quotes
[Declaration of Geneva] Amended in 2006 I will respect the secrets which are confided in me, even after the patient has died. [The...
North West Lancashire Health Authority v A, D & G [1999][2000]
Three respondents have transsexualism and attended gender identity clinic and requested gender reassignment treatment. The health...
Models of science-policy relationship
There are increase in diet-related ill-health in the community with increase in non-communicable diseases due to the industrial food,...
Confidentiality - Human Rights Act 1998, Article 8
Right to respect for private and family life 1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his...
How to address health inequalities in a fair or just manner?
Health inequalities are the unjust and avoidable differences in people's health across the population and between specific population...
Clinical Trials and Its Regulation
Clinical Trials are experiments or observations done in clinical research. They are prospective studies on human participants concerning...
Risk and Regulation: Food and Risk
Good News: usually are of low risk Bad News: most are due to food mishandling (microbial problems) Rules for controlling the food risks:...
