Requiring Influenza Vaccination for Health Care Workers

被引：67

作者：

Anikeeva, Olga ^{[1
]}

Braunack-Mayer, Annette ^{[1
]}

Rogers, Wendy ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Adelaide, Discipline Publ Hlth, Sch Populat Hlth & Clin Practice, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

[2] Flinders Univ S Australia, Dept Med Educ, Adelaide, SA, Australia

来源：

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | 2009年 / 99卷 / 01期

关键词：

IMMUNIZATION; COVERAGE; STAFF; FAVOR; DUTY;

D O I：

10.2105/AJPH.2008.136440

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Annual influenza vaccination for health care workers has the potential to benefit health care professionals, their patients, and their families by reducing the transmission of influenza in the health care setting. Furthermore, staff vaccination programs are cost-effective for health care institutions because of reduced staff illness and absenteeism. Despite international recommendations and strong ethical arguments for annual influenza immunization for health care professionals, staff utilization of vaccination remains low. We have analyzed the ethical implications of a variety of efforts to increase vaccination rates, including mandatory influenza vaccination. A program of incentives and sanctions may increase health care worker compliance with fewer ethical impediments than mandatory vaccination.

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