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- Title
Proteção individual versus proteção coletiva: análise bioética do programa nacional de vacinação infantil em massa.
- Authors
de Castro Lessa, Sérgio; Schramm, Fermin Roland
- Abstract
Vaccination is considered one of the most efficient and cost-effective public health policies most used in the control and prevention of disease. However, it is also one of the most polemic and controversial biomedical techniques, making it difficult to avoid an ethical dilemma, especially when vaccination is compulsory for the entire population. Indeed, since vaccines are not totally effective and safe, there is an ethical conflict between the individual and the collective interest, because children effectively carry the burden of vaccination for the benefit of public health when they are affected with serious adverse reactions and do not benefit from the care that should be offered by the government. The objective of this article was to demonstrate that the tools of bioethics are relevant in this discussion to understand and analyze these dilemmas critically by providing convincing arguments to underpin the development of biopolitics that consider prevention not only rigorously, but also the joint responsibility of all as fundamental for individual and collective protection.
- Publication
Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
1413-8123
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1413-81232014201.14882013