Animal and Human Rights

In works involving the manipulation of vertebrates, a certificate must be sent that the research was approved by the Ethics and Biosafety Committee of the institution where the research was carried out.

With respect to Human Research, a certificate that the project has been approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee must be submitted in case of socioeconomic or ethnoecological studies. Furthermore, in case of experimentation with human subjects, authors must include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent has been obtained. Finally, it is emphasized that the privacy rights of human beings must always be observed.

O Mundo da Saúde adopts policies for the registration of clinical trials in organizations, such as the international registry ClinicalTrials.gov and the national platform Registro Brasileiro de Ensaios Clínicos - ReBEC.