Individualism and social solidarity in vaccination policy: some further considerations

This commentary, in response to the paper by Boas et al [IJPHR December 2016], considers some of the wider ethical, cultural and practical factors that may influence the official response of a polio-free nation following the identification of introduced wild virus within its borders. It looks at fac...

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Autor principal: Sim, Fiona M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28396729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-017-0147-2
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spelling pubmed-53826582017-04-10 Individualism and social solidarity in vaccination policy: some further considerations Sim, Fiona M. Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary This commentary, in response to the paper by Boas et al [IJPHR December 2016], considers some of the wider ethical, cultural and practical factors that may influence the official response of a polio-free nation following the identification of introduced wild virus within its borders. It looks at factors influencing vaccine uptake internationally, using examples of nations striving to improve childhood vaccine uptake, the relevance of mandatory versus voluntary immunisation and the role of public education and misinformation. BioMed Central 2017-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5382658/ /pubmed/28396729 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-017-0147-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28396729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-017-0147-2
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