ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN HEALTH


Section VIII
Organisational Mechanism for Ethics


While ethical guidelines are not administrative rules and the conscience of researchers may be the best guide for ensuring that ethics are followed in research and for resolving ethical dilemmas, conduct of research cannot be completely left to the discretion of individual researchers. Institutions and researchers involved in social science research in health should create appropriate institutional or research project based mechanisms to ensure ethical conduct of research and implementation of guidelines.