Mandatory HPV Vaccination: An Ethical Analysis

Mandatory HPV vaccination and political debate.

Ethical analysis of HPV vaccine policy options.

Vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV) may soon be licensed. In contrast to most vaccine-preventable diseases, which are transmitted by air or casual contact, HPV is primarily transmitted by sexual contact. An analysis that applies ethical theories, such as utilitarianism, rule of double effect, and principlism, is needed for policy considerations. These analyses reveal that HPV vaccinatio...

Vaccines--but not as we know them: an ethical evaluation of HPV vaccination policy in Australia.

OBJECTIVE To show how systematic ethical evaluation of public health policy may reveal issues of moral significance for critical examination. METHOD Using Australia's human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program as an exemplar and adopting an approach outlined elsewhere, we determine whether conditions of effectiveness, proportionality, necessity and least infringement, and public justifica...

Re: parental acceptance of a mandatory human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program.

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine factors that influence parent's acceptance of a mandatory school-based human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program. METHODS A convenience sample of 325 parents, with children aged 9 to 17 years old, completed a 53-item survey. Survey questions targeted their opinions about HPV, the HPV vaccine, and a mandatory HPV vaccination program....

HPV vaccination: should it be mandatory for entry into public school?

© 2007, AWHONN 133 Worldwide, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women (CDC, 2006). The ACS (2006) estimates that more than 9,700 cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed this year in the United States. During 2006 alone, approximately 3,700 U.S. women will have died from this form of cancer (ACS). The rate of cervical cancer deaths in the United States has dropped t...