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- Title
VACCINATION AND SCARCITY: ETHICAL AND LEGAL CRITERIA FOR RESOURCES ALLOCATION IN THE NEW CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC CONTEXT.
- Authors
MELQUÍADES DUARTE, LUCIANA GASPAR; LUNA VIDAL, VÍCTOR
- Abstract
Objective: This research seeks to investigate the ethic and the legality of the National Immunization Plan against Covid-19 (PNI) and propose criteria for obtaining justice in the vaccine distribution. Methodology: The study uses the theoretical-deductive method to conduct a qualitative research with analytical and propositional approach, through the use of indirect sources of research as scientific texts and normative frameworks. Results: The study concluded that the criterion of special responsibilities was partially adequate, which would imply the priority availability of immunizations to health professionals, since that they are limited to those who work in the fight against the pandemic or in actions in defense of life. It was the base for the prioritization of sanitaryly or socially vulnerable groups, which corresponds to the criterion of imminent death. It led to the perception of the validity of the protection of some professional groups, to the criticism of the lack of specification of criteria for the preference of others, and it criticized the lack of priority of some categories. Finally, it was proposed the organization of the vaccination calendar, after the immunization of the groups contemplated in the PNI, in decreasing order to the perception of income per capita, due to the greater risk inherent to the financially neediest classes. Conclusions: The PNI meets some criteria of equity in accordance with Law and the values potentially profiled by Brazilian society, but lacks improvement in the vaccine distributive process to fully achieve health justice.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; SARS-CoV-2; RESOURCE allocation; MEDICAL personnel; VACCINATION
- Publication
Revista Jurídica (0103-3506), 2021, Vol 2, Issue 64, p565
- ISSN
0103-3506
- Publication type
Article