부산대학교 도서관

Public health policy often involves a trade-off between promoting population health and protecting the interests of identifiable individuals. This paper analyses this tradeoff as it arises in the context of decisions about the vaccination of children against Covid-19, where vaccination may be in the interests of society as a whole, as a means to stopping transmission, but not in the interests of individual children. The paper argues that the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation resolved this tension by appeal to a version of a non-maleficence principle. It argues that, while this principle can be a useful guide to some public health policy decision-making, it is inappropriate in the case of vaccination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]