Ethics and Bioethical Principles in Vaccine Research in Health Emergencies

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Vaccines, bioethics, epidemic, pandemic scientific research, bioethical principles, health emergency.

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Adriana Mejía Estrada
Facultad de Ciencias Médicas y Biológicas de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5458-3702

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Biomedical research offers the possibility of new knowledge to improve the human life; this type of research requires human participants and must be carried out with high scientific and ethical standards. Scientific research involving human participants requires to protect them from the potential risks and harms of the research procedures and to provide them benefits from their research participation. Research of new vaccines to prevent human diseases is one of the most recognized in the worldwide for the benefits to prevent diseases and to diminish the number of deaths; Actually for the new CoViD-19 /SARS- COV-2 pandemic, it has begun the search for a vaccine that can improve the dismal outlook for the health, the economy and the development of societies around the world; protocols are being developed in a large number of countries for the treatment of the disease and for the development of a vaccine. Developing an effective vaccine in a short time to reduce the damage and the number of deaths will undoubtedly represent a benefit for global health, however all of these studies require the participation of healthy volunteers who will be intentionally exposed to CoViD-19 /SARS- COV-2. This paper presents the review of documents on the ethical justification and the application of bioethical principles in the development of vaccines in health emergencies.

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Ethics and Bioethical Principles in Vaccine Research in Health Emergencies. (2022). Estancias, 2(4), 225-245. https://revistas.uaq.mx/index.php/estancias/article/view/1050
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Adriana Mejía Estrada, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas y Biológicas de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México.

Médica oftalmóloga, maestra en Bioética por la Universidad Clarkson, Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Ex becaria del Programa Caribbean Research Ethics Education Initiative y del Programa de Bioética de Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Coordinadora de Bioética del Colegio de Médicos de Michoacán y representante del Colegio Médico ante la Comisión Estatal de Bioética del Estado de Michoacán. Es Profesora Investigadora en la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas y Biológicas de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Morelia, Michoacán, México.

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Ethics and Bioethical Principles in Vaccine Research in Health Emergencies. (2022). Estancias, 2(4), 225-245. https://revistas.uaq.mx/index.php/estancias/article/view/1050

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