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Ethical considerations for mandating food worker vaccination during outbreaks: an analysis of hepatitis A vaccine
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Ethical considerations for mandating food worker vaccination during outbreaks: an analysis of hepatitis A vaccine

Janet Fleetwood
Journal of public health policy, v 42(3), pp 465-476
Sep 2021
PMID: 34188176
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https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-021-00293-yView
Published, Version of Record (VoR)Maybe Open Access (Publisher Bronze) Open

Abstract

Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control Hepatitis A Vaccines Humans Public Health United States - epidemiology Vaccination
A widespread global outbreak of Hepatitis A virus (HAV) has prompted regulations in a few cities in the United States (US) mandating HAV vaccination of food service workers. This Viewpoint considers the global impact of HAV, analyzes ethical issues pertinent to recent mandatory vaccination regulations and the core values of public health. It explores the health and rights of stakeholders and ethical criteria for mandatory vaccination that could be applied globally with the ethical codes of the World Health Organization and the American Public Health Association. The goal is to help create ethical guidance for determining under what conditions, and for what populations, should regulations be created requiring vaccination for a communicable disease.

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