Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar Üniversitesi, Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Biyoetik Tezli Yüksek Lisans Programı, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2018
Tezin Dili: Türkçe
Öğrenci: ESRA ÇAPANOĞLU
Danışman: Fatma Yeşim Işıl Ülman
Özet:
Ethical Perspective of Parental Rejection of Childhood Vaccination, A Qualitative Study
Immunisation ranks as one of the 15 most important advances in health care in the last century. Immunisation undoubtedly prevents illness and saves lives. However immunisation is often controversial, at least to the general public in the context of compulsory public policies. Parents have a moral responsibility to care for their children as well as possible, according to their personal beliefs, unless these put their children at serious risk.
The common good requires us to acknowledge and protect a public interest in recognising that parents have the primary responsibility for protecting the health and welfare of their children, but also a public interest in ensuring that the welfare of children is not put at risk through parental ignorance, neglect or abuse. We have to balance these two ‘social goods’, particularly in circumstances in which they conflict. Childhood immunization involves a balance between parents’ autonomy in deciding whether to immunize their children and the benefits to public health from mandating vaccines. Ethical concerns about pediatric vaccination span several public health domains, including those of policymakers, clinicians, and other professionals (2).
This master
thesis aims to explore the key issues related to ethical aspects of chilhood
immunisation and parental rejection putting child’s health at stake, as well as
the social good. It also draws attention to the need of deeper researches
better understanding parents’ attitudes in cultural and societal context
through sociological qualitative studies.
Key Words: Childhood immunisation, Vaccine rejection, Ethics, Common
good, Autonomy