ArticleHEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues2019
Nudging Immunity: The Case for Vaccinating Children in School and Day Care by Default.
Article in HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Nudging toward vaccination: a systematic review.BMJ global health · 2021Pooled it
- An open repository of COVID-19 vaccine mandate studies with a worked scoping review of quasi-experimental evidence.NPJ vaccines · 2026Article
- Positive outcomes of disease awareness information conveyed by high school students to their guardians.Fukushima journal of medical science · 2026Article
- A national nudge study of differently framed messages to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Saudi Arabia: A randomized controlled trial.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2023Article
- Consolidating a research agenda for vaccine mandates.Vaccine · 2022Article
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- Black-and-white thinking and conspiracy beliefs prevent parents from vaccinating their children against COVID-19.Applied cognitive psychology · 2022Article
- After the Pandemic: New Responsibilities.Public health ethics · 2021Article
- Global Ethical Considerations Regarding Mandatory Vaccination in Children.The Journal of pediatrics · 2021Article
- Vaccination ethics.British medical bulletin · 2021Review
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Abstract
Many parents are hesitant about, or face motivational barriers to, vaccinating their children. In this paper, we propose a type of vaccination policy that could be implemented either in addition to coercive vaccination or as an alternative to it in order to increase paediatric vaccination uptake in a non-coercive way. We propose the use of vaccination nudges that exploit the very same decision biases that often undermine vaccination uptake. In particular, we propose a policy under which children would be vaccinated at school or day-care by default, without requiring parental authorization, but with parents retaining the right to opt their children out of vaccination. We show that such a policy is (1) likely to be effective, at least in cases in which non-vaccination is due to practical obstacles, rather than to strong beliefs about vaccines, (2) ethically acceptable and less controversial than some alternatives because it is not coercive and affects individual autonomy only in a morally unproblematic way, and (3) likely to receive support from the UK public, on the basis of original empirical research we have conducted on the lay public.
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