Vaccination policy and ethical challenges posed by herd immunity, suboptimal uptake and subgroup targeting

Public Health Ethics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 280-291

  Luyten, Jeroen ^a   Vandevelde, Antoon ^b   Van Damme, Pierre ^a   Beutels, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HERD IMMUNITY; INFORMATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REIMBURSEMENT; VACCINATION;

EID: 82055185598     PISSN: 17549973     EISSN: 17549981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/phe/phr032     Document Type: Article

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