Informed Consent for Mobile Phone Health Surveys in Colombia: A Qualitative Study.

Public health surveys deployed through automated mobile phone calls raise a set of ethical challenges, including succinctly communicating information necessary to obtain respondent informed consent. This study aimed to capture the perspectives of key stakeholders, both experts and community members, on consent processes and preferences for participation in automated mobile phone surveys (MPS) of non-communicable disease risk factors in Colombia. We conducted semi-structured interviews with ethics and digital health experts and focus group discussions with community representatives. There was meaningful disagreement within both groups regarding the necessity of consent, when the purpose of a survey is to contribute to the formulation of public policies. Respondents who favored consent emphasized that consent communications ought to promote understanding and voluntariness, and implicitly suggested that information disclosure conform to a reasonable person standard. Given the automated and unsolicited nature of the phone calls and concerns regarding fraud, trust building was emphasized as important, especially for national MPS deployment. Community sensitization campaigns that provide relevant contextual information (such as the name of the administering institution) were thought to support trust-building. Additional ways to achieve the goals of consent while building trust in automated MPS for disease surveillance should be evaluated in order to inform ethical and effective practice.

La aceptabilidad jurídica de Ia técnica de gestación de vida humana por sustitución de vientre / No disponible

En el presente artículo se expondrán algunos de los argumentos que se esgrimen sobre la aceptabilidad jurídica de la técnica de gestación de vida humana por sustitución de vientre, comenzando por establecer las múltiples denominaciones que de ella se han realizado y que han conllevado a conocerla con los nombres de alquiler de vientre, maternidad subrogada o maternidad sustituta. Posteriormente se determinarán los aspectos legales que conlleva el tránsito de la técnica a su realización a través de contratos, precisando de esta manera los elementos esenciales (capacidad, consentimiento, causa y objeto licito), el contenido y la posible forma de los contratos de gestación de vida humana por sustitución de vientre (AU)

This article will present some of the arguments that have been exposed about the legal acceptability in the technique of gestation of human life by surrogacy, beginning for establish the multiple denominations that have been realized and which make know this technique as: surrogacy, surrogate motherhood or substitute motherhood. Then it will determine the legal aspects involved in the transit of this technique to its accomplishment through contracts, thereby specifying the essential elements (capacity, consent, cause and lawful purpose), the content and the possible manner of gestation human life contracts by surrogacy (AU)

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This article will present some of the arguments that have been exposed about the legal acceptability in the technique of gestation of human life by surrogacy, beginning for establish the multiple denominations that have been realized and which make know this technique as: surrogacy, surrogate motherhood or substitute motherhood. Then it will determine the legal aspects involved in the transit of this technique to its accomplishment through contracts, thereby specifying the essential elements (capacity, consent, cause and lawful purpose), the content and the possible manner of gestation human life contracts by surrogacy.

Teoría Crítica, riesgo y justicia en salud pública / Critical Theory, Risk and Justice in Public Health / Teoria, crítica, risco e justiça em saúde pública

En este trabajo discuto la pertinencia del programa de Teoría crítica de la sociedad para examinar las demandas de la justicia en salud pública desde una perspectiva no reduccionista, es decir, no sectorial, que a la vez que dé cuenta de la relación íntima que existe entre arreglos sociales y salud permita explorar un poco la pregunta, más fundamental, por las condiciones necesarias para la autorrealización humana...

In this paper I discuss the relevance of the program of social critical theory to examine the demands for justice in public health from a non-reductionist perspective —that is, a not sectorial one— that accounts for the intimate relationship between health and socialarrangements and allows further exploration of the fundamental question about the necessary conditions for human self-realization...

Neste artigo discuto a pertença do programa da Teoria crítica da sociedade para examinar exigências da justiça em saúde pública a partir de uma perspectiva não reducionista, isto é,não setorial, embora consciente da relação íntima existente entre arranjos sociais e saúde permite descobrir um pouco a questão mais fundamental, das condições necessárias à auto-realização humana...