ArticleThe Journal of pediatrics2021
Global Ethical Considerations Regarding Mandatory Vaccination in Children.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Do we need to vaccinate every child against COVID-19: What evidence suggests-A systematic review of opinions.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among the General Population in Japan from Public Health Ethical Perspectives: Findings from a Narrative Review.Asian bioethics review · 2025Article
- Unity in Diversity and Diversity in Unity-Vaccination Policies in EU Countries.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic experiences on attitudes towards vaccinations: on the social, cultural and political determinants of preferred vaccination organization models in Poland.Health research policy and systems · 2024Article
- Vaccine Mandates and Cultural Safety.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2023Article
- Ethical considerations of the vaccine development process and vaccination: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Ethical Challenges Involved in COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Children: A Systematic Review.Vaccines · 2023Review
- Political Partisanship and Trust in Government Predict Popular Support for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Various Professions and Demographic Groups: A Research Note.American politics research · 2023Article
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- COVID-19 vaccination in children as a global dilemma through an ethical lens: A retrospective review.Health science reports · 2023Article
- The (Un)fairness of Vaccination Freeriding.Public health ethics · 2022Article
- How Mandatory Can We Make Vaccination?Public health ethics · 2022Article
- Should COVID-19 vaccines be mandated in schools? - an international caregiver perspective.Vaccine · 2022Article
- The Ethics of Selective Mandatory Vaccination for COVID-19.Public health ethics · 2022Article
- Providing children with COVID-19 vaccinations is challenging due to lack of data and wide-ranging parental acceptance.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2022Review
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- Reflections on Ethics and Advocacy in Child Health (REACH): Creating a Forum for Ethical Dialogue.The Journal of pediatrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
Whether children should be vaccinated against coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) (or other infectious diseases such as influenza) and whether some degree of coercion should be exercised by the state to ensure high uptake depends, among other things, on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. For COVID-19, these factors are currently unknown for children, with unanswered questions also on children's role in the transmission of the virus, the extent to which the vaccine will decrease transmission, and the expected benefit (if any) to the child. Ultimately, deciding whether to recommend that children receive a novel vaccine for a disease that is not a major threat to them, or to mandate the vaccine, requires precise information on the risks, including disease severity and vaccine safety and effectiveness, a comparative evaluation of the alternatives, and the levels of coercion associated with each. However, the decision also requires balancing self-interest with duty to others, and liberty with usefulness. Separate to ensuring vaccine supply and access, we outline 3 requirements for mandatory vaccination from an ethical perspective: (1) whether the disease is a grave threat to the health of children and to public health, (2) positive comparative expected usefulness of mandatory vaccination, and (3) proportionate coercion. We also suggest that the case for mandatory vaccine in children may be strong in the case of influenza vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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