Sustained ethical analysis of global dilemmas and country-level decision making during and post the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review
Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences Quarterly
; 38(4):1056, 2022.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1918918
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of countries worldwide and their abilities to cope with the fast-paced demands of the research and medical community. A key to promoting ethical decision-making frameworks is by calibrating the sustainability at regional, national, and global levels to incorporate coordinated reforms. We performed a sustained ethical analysis and critically reviewed evidence addressing country-level responses to practices during the COVID-19 pandemic using PubMed (MEDLINE), Scopus, and CINAHL. The World Health Organization's ethical framework proposed for the entire population during the pandemic was applied to thematically delineate findings under equality, best outcomes (utility), prioritizing the worst off, and prioritizing those tasked with helping others. The findings demarcate ethical concerns about the validity of drug and vaccine trials in developing and developed countries, hints of unjust healthcare organizational policies, lack of equal allocation of pertinent resources, miscalculated allocation of resources to essential workers and stratified populations.
Medical Sciences; Allocation of Health Care Resources; Clinical Ethics; Decision-making; International Affairs; Public Health Ethics; WHO; Pakistan; Patients; COVID-19 vaccines; Ventilators; Telemedicine; Health care; Self interest; Medical personnel; Pandemics; Epidemics; Physicians; Public health; Surveillance; Ethics; Coronaviruses; Litigation
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Databases of international organizations
Database:
ProQuest Central
Type of study:
Reviews
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Systematic review/Meta Analysis
Language:
English
Journal:
Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences Quarterly
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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