Ethical Concerns Regarding Mandatory Influenza Vaccination in Healthcare Practitioners
Ethical Concerns Regarding Mandatory Influenza Vaccination in Healthcare Practitioners

Author(s): Miroslav Radenković, Ivana Lazarević, Marko D. Stojanović, Tanja Jovanović
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: healthcare practitioners; mandatory influenza vaccination; ethics; nosocomial influenza; public health
Summary/Abstract: An escalating international geographical mobility enhances and facilitates the promptness of infectious disease spreading across large regions. The transmission of influenza to healthcare practitioners, as a result of nosocomial influenza outbreaks, has been well documented. Consequently, healthcare institutions have devoted extensive efforts to the large-scale prevention of nosocomial transmission of influenza through vaccination programmes of healthcare personnel. Nevertheless, despite well-aimed endeavours of voluntary vaccination, sustained augmented-level annual immunization percentages are low. Moreover, many ethical challenges regarding vaccination are still very much present.

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