Vaccination Mandates-An Old Public Health Tool Faces New Challenges

Lawrence O Gostin; Dorit Reiss; Michelle M Mello

doi:10.1001/jama.2023.11059

Vaccination Mandates-An Old Public Health Tool Faces New Challenges

JAMA. 2023 Aug 15;330(7):589-590. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.11059.

Authors

Lawrence O Gostin¹, Dorit Reiss², Michelle M Mello³

Affiliations

¹ O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
² Hastings School of Law, University of California, San Francisco.
³ Stanford Law School and Department of Health Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

PMID: 37486681
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.11059

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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses how federal vaccine requirements have helped thwart vaccine-preventable diseases as well as how growing public resistance to vaccines and judicial and legislative limits to vaccination mandates may change that.

MeSH terms

Immunization Programs* / legislation & jurisprudence
Immunization Programs* / methods
Mandatory Programs* / legislation & jurisprudence
Public Health* / legislation & jurisprudence
Public Health* / methods
Vaccination* / legislation & jurisprudence
Vaccination* / methods
Vaccines* / therapeutic use

Substances

Vaccines