Public Health Authority of the Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Cent Eur J Public Health. 2024 Jun;32(2):132-136. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a8088.
Legal regulation, whether we want it or not, plays a role in protecting and promoting individual and public health. This also applies to legislation involving vaccination, especially compulsory vaccination. It is appropriate that legislation should not create barriers to the provision of health care. Where there is legal ambiguity, problems can arise that make the provision of health care more difficult, as we have seen, for example, in the context of the COVID pandemic. Furthermore, in the case of compulsory vaccination, there is a conflict between fundamental rights and freedoms. On the one hand, the right to the protection of personal freedom and bodily integrity, and on the other, the right to life and health. Most compulsory vaccinations concern children. As far as adult vaccination is concerned, this mainly includes compulsory vaccination of medical and social staff caring for patients and operating at biological risk, as well as patient groups also at risk of serious infectious disease. For these reasons, it is essential that the legislation is such that it does not impose a burden where it is not necessary and, on the contrary, allows for optimal protection of persons at biological risk.
法律监管，无论我们是否愿意，都在保护和促进个人和公众健康方面发挥着作用。这也适用于涉及疫苗接种的立法，特别是强制性疫苗接种。立法不应为提供医疗保健制造障碍，这是恰当的。在存在法律模糊性的地方，可能会出现使医疗保健提供变得更加困难的问题，正如我们在 COVID 大流行背景下所看到的那样。此外，在强制性疫苗接种的情况下，基本权利和自由之间存在冲突。一方面是保护个人自由和身体完整性的权利，另一方面是生命和健康的权利。大多数强制性疫苗接种涉及儿童。就成人疫苗接种而言，这主要包括对照顾患者和处于生物风险的医疗和社会工作人员以及也有严重传染病风险的患者群体进行强制性疫苗接种。出于这些原因，至关重要的是立法不应在不必要的地方施加负担，相反，应允许对处于生物风险的人进行最佳保护。
