Applying Kass's Public Health Ethics Framework to Mandatory Health Care Worker Immunization: The Devil is in the Details

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 55-57

  Omer, Saad B ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIC; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LEGAL ASPECT; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MASS IMMUNIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MASS VACCINATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883478783     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2013.825122     Document Type: Article

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