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Consent as a compositional act - a framework that provides clarity for the retention and use of data.

Philos Ethics Humanit Med

March 2024

Institute for Ethics, History, and the Humanities (iEH2), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Background: Informed consent is one of the key principles of conducting research involving humans. When research participants give consent, they perform an act in which they utter, write or otherwise provide an authorisation to somebody to do something. This paper proposes a new understanding of the informed consent as a compositional act.

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Background: Persons with disabilities experience higher risks of mortality as well as poorer health as compared to the general population. The aim of this study is to estimate the correlations between functional difficulties across several domains in six countries.

Methods: National census data with questions on disability from six countries (Mauritius, Morocco, Senegal, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Uruguay) was used in this study.

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