Background

The advent of mobile applications for health and medicine will revolutionize travel medicine. Despite their many benefits, such as access to real-time data, mobile apps for travel medicine are accompanied by many ethical issues, including questions about security and privacy.

Methods

A systematic literature review as conducted following PRISMA guidelines. Database screening yielded 1795 results and seven papers satisfied the criteria for inclusion. Through a mix of inductive and deductive data extraction, this systematic review examined both the benefits and challenges, as well as ethical considerations, of mobile apps for travel medicine.

Results

Ethical considerations were discussed with varying depth across the included articles, with privacy and data protection mentioned most frequently, highlighting concerns over sensitive information and a lack of guidelines in the digital sphere. Additionally, technical concerns about data quality and bias were predominant issues for researchers and developers alike. Some ethical issues were not discussed at all, including equity, and user involvement.

Conclusion

This paper highlights the scarcity of discussion around ethical issues. Both researchers and developers need to better integrate ethical reflection at each step of the development and use of health apps. More effective oversight mechanisms and clearer ethical guidance are needed to guide the stakeholders in this endeavour.

中文翻译：

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用于旅行医学和伦理考虑的移动应用程序：系统评价

背景

健康和医学移动应用程序的出现将彻底改变旅行医学。尽管有许多好处，例如访问实时数据，但旅行医学移动应用程序伴随着许多道德问题，包括安全和隐私问题。

方法

按照 PRISMA 指南进行的系统文献综述。数据库筛选产生了 1795 个结果，7 篇论文符合纳入标准。通过归纳和演绎数据提取的混合，本系统审查检查了旅行医学移动应用程序的好处和挑战，以及伦理考虑。

结果

在所包含的文章中对道德考虑进行了不同深度的讨论，最常提到的是隐私和数据保护，突出了对敏感信息的担忧以及数字领域缺乏指导方针。此外，对数据质量和偏见的技术担忧是研究人员和开发人员的主要问题。一些道德问题根本没有讨论，包括公平和用户参与。

结论

本文强调了围绕伦理问题的讨论的稀缺性。研究人员和开发人员都需要在健康应用程序开发和使用的每个步骤中更好地整合道德反思。需要更有效的监督机制和更明确的道德指导来指导利益相关者开展这项工作。