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  • Ethical issues in vaccination = Etična vprašanja in cepljenje
    Begg, Norman
    The ethical issues that relate to the practice of vaccination in developed countries, with particular reference to the experience in Britain are considered. It is our ethical duty to support the use ... of vaccines that are safe, effective and that offer benefit both to individual children and to society, and also to ensure that parents have access to good information that enables them to make healthy choices for their children. It is accepted good medical practice to follow four basic ethical principles: autonomy (self-determination, freedom of choice); beneficence (doing good); non-maleficence (not doing harm) and justice (fairness). An ethical duty of care is to undertake interventions which do good to individuals. The right to autonomy is based on the assumption that if any individual decides to opt out,then the consequences of that decision will not harm others. The World Health Organisation has endorsed this principle by stating that no child should be denied immunisation without serious consideration of the potential consequences.., both for the individual child and for the community. The finalprinciple, justice, means that vaccination should be freely available to all, and that no individuals should be denied access. In Britain, the bringingof a child by a parent (or responsible guardian) for immunisation after an invitation to attend for this purpose is considered as acceptance that the child may be immunised: consent is implied in the absence of any spcific objection. It could be argued that a parent who deliberately witholds consent to vaccination for their child is denying the child his or her right to be protected with a proven vaccine. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters).
    Vir: Zdravstveno varstvo : Slovenian journal of public health. - ISSN 0351-0026 (Letn. 38, št. 11-12, 1999, str. 334-336)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci
    Leto - 1999
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 10958553

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