Protecting Communities In Biomedical Research

该项目正在审查在研究中应向社区提供的保护。这需要两个阶段的工作。在第一阶段，确定和分析了现有的社区保护措施。这一分析表明，有17项关于保护社区的不同宣言，划分了五大类，共23项不同的保护。这些保护措施适用于原住民社区，如美洲原住民社区，但似乎不一定适用于其他类型的社区。第二阶段的重点是确定哪些保护措施适合不同类型的社区。它包括四个步骤：（1）描述定义社区的关键特征。(2)利用这些特征来发展不同类型的社区。这一步骤承认，“社区”一词包括一系列不同的群体，这些群体不一定是同质的。确定了七种不同类型的社区。(3)说明为土著社区确定的23项保护措施，并指出实施每项保护措施所需的特点类型。(4)不同类型的社区通过共同的特征与适当的保护相联系，从而可以在研究中界定适合不同类型社区的保护类型。第一阶段的研究已提交出版;第二阶段的研究正在进行中。 这个项目已经完成。

This project is examining protections that should be afforded to communities in research. It entails two phases of work. In the first phase, existing protections for communities have been identified and analyzed. This analysis indicates that there are 17 different declarations about protecting communities that delineate five broad groups with a total of 23 different protections. These protections are appropriate to aboriginal communities, such as Native American communities, but do not necessarily seem appropriate to other types of communities. The second phase focuses on determining what protections are appropriate for different types of communities. It entails four steps: (1) Delineating the key characteristics that define communities. (2) Use these characteristics to develop a typology of different types of communities. This step recognizes that the term "communities" encompasses a diverse set of groups that are not necessarily homogenous. Seven different types of communities are identified. (3) Delineating the 23 protections identified for the aboriginal communities and indicating the type of characteristics necessary to implement each protection. (4) The different types of communities are linked to appropriate protections through the characteristics that are shared, permitting the definition of the types of protections in research that are appropriate to the different types of communities. The first phase of research has been submitted for publication; the second phase of research is ongoing. This project is completed.