Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...

In the majority of developed countries, the level of influenza vaccination coverage in all age groups is sub-optimal. Hence, the authorities offer different kinds of incentives for people to become inoculated such as subsidizing immunization or placing immunization centers in malls to make the...

Vaccination remains one of the most economical and effective interventions for preventing an array of infectious diseases and the associated disabilities and deaths as well as fostering public health. However,the use of vaccines raises a number of ethical issues at the local and global level of...