ArticleJournal of medical ethics2023
Vaccine mandates for healthcare workers beyond COVID-19.
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
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- What Lessons can Be Learned From the Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic?International journal of public health · 2025Review
- Protecting our frontline: vaccination policies for health care workers in the Americas.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025Article
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- State COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Uptake Among Health Care Workers in the US.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- How denialist amplification spread COVID misinformation and undermined the credibility of public health science.Journal of public health policy · 2024Review
- Insight into pharmacy students' perspectives on mandatory COVID-19 vaccines in schools and healthcare settings.Therapeutic advances in vaccines and immunotherapy · 2024Article
- The challenges and benefits of public health in smart cities from a 4 M perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Editorial: Knowledge and behavioral beliefs related to vaccination hesitancy among healthcare workers.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- COVID-19 vaccination requirements for Ireland's healthcare students.Critical social policy · 2023Article
- Healthcare professionals' attitudes to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination: Cross-sectional survey data from four European countries.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Article
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- Healthcare Workers' Attitudes towards Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Vaccines · 2023Review
- Increasing Influenza Vaccination in Primary Healthcare Workers Using Solidary Incentives: Analysis of Efficacy and Costs.Vaccines · 2023Article
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- Vaccine Mandates in the COVID-19 Era: Changing Paradigm or Public Health Opportunity? Comment on "Convergence on Coercion: Functional and Political Pressures as Drivers of Global Childhood Vaccine Mandates".International journal of health policy and management · 2023Article
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Abstract
We provide ethical criteria to establish when vaccine mandates for healthcare workers are ethically justifiable. The relevant criteria are the utility of the vaccine for healthcare workers, the utility for patients (both in terms of prevention of transmission of infection and reduction in staff shortage), and the existence of less restrictive alternatives that can achieve comparable benefits. Healthcare workers have professional obligations to promote the interests of patients that entail exposure to greater risks or infringement of autonomy than ordinary members of the public. Thus, we argue that when vaccine mandates are justified on the basis of these criteria, they are not unfairly discriminatory and the level of coercion they involve is ethically acceptable-and indeed comparable to that already accepted in healthcare employment contracts. Such mandates might be justified even when general population mandates are not. Our conclusion is that, given current evidence, those ethical criteria justify mandates for influenza vaccination, but not COVID-19 vaccination, for healthcare workers. We extend our arguments to other vaccines.
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