DTP vaccine related injury: an examination of proposed vaccine injury compensation legislation.
نویسنده
چکیده
منابع مشابه
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 established the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to compensate people thought to be injured by certain vaccines. The act's goals are to ensure an adequate supply of vaccines, to stabilize vaccine costs, and to establish and maintain an accessible and efficient setting for providing compensation to people found to have been injured by...
متن کاملPhysician concerns about vaccine adverse effects and potential litigation.
OBJECTIVE To understand physician concerns about litigation and beliefs regarding vaccine safety. DESIGN A stratified random sample of family physicians, pediatricians, and general practitioners younger than 65 years who were in office-based practices across the United States was selected from the American Medical Association list that includes nonmembers. A standardized telephone survey was ...
متن کاملVaccine injury compensation
Is it time for a vaccine injury compensation scheme in Australia? The answer in part requires an assessment of how well the current ‘modified common law’ system serves to compensate those who suffer vaccine injuries. By considering the basic approach of the current common law1 and looking at cases previously decided, it should become possible to reach an informed conclusion on the relative meri...
متن کاملAccidental self-inoculation in a veterinarian with attenuated vaccine of bovine Johne’s disease
Herein, we described the first case of self-inoculation in a veterinarian with bovine Johne’s disease(BJD) attenuated vaccine in Iran that required medical attention. A needle-stick injury to the right thumb of ayoung veterinarian during vaccination of cattle with BJD vaccine resulted in an inflammation that not onlyfailed to resolve but also progressed to a lesion 2.5 cm in diameter. The usual...
متن کاملThe introduction of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine and child mortality in rural Guinea-Bissau: an observational study.
BACKGROUND and objective Previous studies from areas with high mortality in West Africa have not found diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine to be associated with the expected reduction in mortality, a few studies suggesting increased mortality. We therefore examined mortality when DTP was first introduced in rural areas of Guinea-Bissau in 1984-1987. Setting Twenty villages in four region...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of contemporary health law and policy
دوره 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1987