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Vaccines mandates for healthcare workers beyond COVID-19

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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. Health care workers have professional obligations to promote the interests of patients that ent...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1136/medethics-2022-108229

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-5163-3017
Publisher:
BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal of Medical Ethics Journal website
Publication date:
2022-05-30
Acceptance date:
2022-04-12
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EISSN:
1473-4257
ISSN:
0306-6800
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1250653
Local pid:
pubs:1250653
Deposit date:
2022-04-14

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