Abstract
Vaccination remains one of the most economical and effective interventions for preventing an array of infectious diseases and the associated disabilities and deaths as well as fostering public health. However, the use of vaccines raises a number of ethical issues at the local and global level of discourse and praxis. This entry attempts to enumerate and flesh out some of the pressing aspects of these issues in their principlist and global ethical dimensions as they affect children, selected groups of adults, and humanity in general.
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Afolabi, M.O. (2015). Vaccination. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_432-1
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