Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture 20: Health Sci 3400A - Lecture 20

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Graham Smith

Document Summary

Lecture 20: ethical dimensions of health policy mandatory vaccination. Vaccination in general has been touted as one of the top public health achievements all over the world: the canada public health association identifies vaccination as one of their top 12 achievements. In addition to vaccinating yourself to protect yourself, it also helps protect people who are not vaccinated (many of whom can"t be vaccinated because they are too young, old, or have a medical condition) Infectious diseases may have longer incubation periods or be more or less infectious, which means that the thresholds vary. 20 days) who have not shown any of those exemption statements. Why might people be opposed to mandatory vaccination: do not understand the benefits of vaccines, do not believes that vaccines work/are necessary, believe vaccines are harmful/do not trust the government or companies making the vaccines. This level is relatively safe and the human body naturally contains formaldehyde.