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The Belmont
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Human and Research
Abstract
This essay aims to discuss role of the Belmont report in evaluation and changes in the
process of using human as subject matter in health or behavioural research. This essay will
base be based on journal articles representing the need of the report with many challenges
associated with the application of the Belmont report in the sector of human behaviour and
health research.
“The Belmont Report. Ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects
of research” by J Am Coll Dent.
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Protecting Human Research Subjects: The Past Defines the Future by Joseph L. Breault
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The Historical, Ethical, and Legal Background of Human-Subjects Research by Todd W Rice
The Belmont Report
The Belmont Report is a report that represents the ethical principles and guidelines issued and
written by the national commission to secure and protect the human subject of research in the
area of behavioural and biomedical research. It is a step taken to lead the workings in the
ethical manner in the research (Breault, 2006).
This report was prepared and issued on September 30, 1978 and was printed on April 1979 in
the federal register, summarising moral obligations and rules for the research conducted over
any subject by including human as point of research. Belmont Report includes three essential
principles representing respectful act towards the persons, generosity or beneficence, and
justice or equality with the detailed discussion of three prime sectors of the research
application. This applicability of the research includes informed permission, calculation of
risks and benefits, and selection of subjects. Vollmer and Howard states that Belmont report
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Human and Research
allows researchers to find the positive solution for any difficult situation where independent
decision are not easily identifiable (Coll Dent, 2014).
Three key ideas or guiding the researchers to protect the human subjects in the behavioural
research are;
Respect for people
Caring the sovereignty of all people, giving them courtesy and respect, and permitting for up-
to-date agreement Investigators must be honest and conduct no cheating or any act of
misbehaviour with the person
Beneficence:
This act is related take a proper care while planning or making the efforts or research in sense
that it does not cause any harm to the person if it is not causing any benefits to the person.
Justice
This require and guides the researchers to lead the research with the fair and equally treating
behaviour, no act of discrimination to the people lead the positive solution for the research.
Act of behaving fair and non-discriminatory frame the essential guidelines for the research
(Friesen, Kearns, Redman, & Caplan, 2017).
Necessity of Regulatory protections of human subjects
Research in the healthcare is related to the very challenging aspect that sometimes it can
cause the risk to injury to the human is being utilised as the point of research. There was
confusion in the researchers to use the best way of research that secure the researchers and
human subject both from hurdles and possible issues. Belmont report solved this issue of
research issues by guiding the researchers to perform their research after taking the prior
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