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Table 1 Ethical challenges: five main categories including subdivisions

From: Identifying the scope of ethical challenges caused by the Ebola epidemic 2014-2016 in West Africa: a qualitative study

 

total (n)

scientific articles (n)

popular articles (n)

Categories/subdivisions

1. Responsibility and Accountability

45

7

38

 Negative obligation of assistance

27

2

25

 Positive obligation of assistance

18

5

13

2. Spillover Effects

29

8

21

 Fear

10

3

7

 Stigmatization

10

2

8

 Economic consequences

4

1

3

 Neglect of other diseases

3

2

1

 Humor

2

0

2

3. Research and Development

14

10

4

 Implementation

9

7

2

 Financing

5

3

2

4. Health Communication

11

4

7

 Scaremongering and misinformation

8

3

5

 Public interest vs. personal rights

3

1

2

5. Resource Allocation

4

0

4

  1. Identified and encoded categories (October 2014) and subcategories ordered by number of articles (n) as they appear in the two media types (academic journals/scientific articles; newspapers/popular articles)