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| Title |
Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an economic epidemiology perspective
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, September 2006
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-7622-3-12 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
M Zia Sadique |
| Abstract |
Individuals' free choices in vaccination do not guarantee social optimum since individuals' decision is based on imperfect information, and vaccination decision involves positive externality. Public policy of compulsory vaccination or subsidised vaccination aims to increase aggregate private demand closer to social optimum. However, there is controversy over the effectiveness of public intervention compared to the free choice outcome in vaccination, and this article provides a brief discussion on this issue. It can be summarised that individuals' incentives to vaccination and accordingly their behavioural responses can greatly influence public policy's pursuit to control disease transmission, and compulsory (or subsidised) vaccination policy without incorporating such behavioural responses will not be able to achieve the best social outcome. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 40 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Lebanon | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 35 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 11 | 28% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 10% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 9 | 23% |
| Unknown | 2 | 5% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 28% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 6 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 15% |
| Psychology | 4 | 10% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 18% |
| Unknown | 3 | 8% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 May 2019.
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