Individual freedoms versus collective responsibility: immunization decision-making in the face of occasionally competing values
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Individual freedoms versus collective responsibility: immunization decision-making in the face of occasionally competing values
Modern public health strives for maximizing benefits for the highest number of people while protecting individual rights. Restrictions on individual rights are justified for two reasons--for the benefit of the individual or the benefit of the community. In extreme situations there may be a need to protect the health of an individual and particularly a child; even by overriding individual/parent...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Themes in Epidemiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1742-7622
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-3-13