Disasters, policies and micronutrients : the intersect among ethics, evidence and effective action

Addresses health system policy issues relating to the ethical approval process for health research and dissemination as well as the willingness of the health system to incorporate information from published health research into clinical practice, based on recent direct experiences with the health system response to disasters and the ethical approval process. Expresses the authors' responsibility as university academics to be ‘critic and conscience of society’ imposed by the Education Act (1989). Witnesses a disconnect between research and practice and between the needs of researchers to do prompt research and the laborious processes of ethics committee review. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.