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1.6. General Ethical Principles are:

Respect for persons:
Respect for autonomy

Beneficence:
Maximize benefits and minimize harms
Non-malfeasance (Do no harm):

Holds a central position in the tradition of medical ethics. It
guards against avoidable harm to research participants.

Justice:
Refers to the ethical obligation to treat each person in accordance
with what is normally right and proper.

Ethical Issues are involved in different fields of Health, such as Health
Care, Medical Education, Health Administration and Health Research etc.
The present document will deal with Ethics in Health and Biomedical
Research.

1.7. Important issues in ethical consideration

During development of a research proposal to be implemented in
Bangladesh the investigator (both national and international) should
consider the following issues:

➢ Respect for human dignity and protection of rights and welfare of
human subjects.

➢ Risk of research should be reasonable in relation to expected
benefits.

➢ The investigators should be competent enough to safeguard the
welfare of the research subjects (research participants).

➢ Research design should be sound and the researcher should be
complement enough to conduct the study.

➢ Researcher should oversee whether prevailing legal provisions and
administrative arrangement ensure that the human rights and
welfare of subjects involved in health research are adequately
considered and protected in conformity with the ethical principles.

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