Compulsory Childhood Vaccination in Malaysia: Public Health versus Parental Autonomy

Asari, Khairun Nisaa; Makhtar, Maheran; Asuhaimi, Farhanin Abdullah; Pauzai, Nur Amani

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“…Besides that, parents receive a non-taxable payment of A$129 for each child between 18 and 24 months which meets the immunization criteria. The parents will receive the same amount if the kids are between four and five (Asari et al, 2019). In addition, Australia introduced the "No Jab, No Pay" legislation in 2016, removing moral or ethical objections to vaccination from the eligibility requirements for immunization-related financial benefits.…”

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“…In comparison to the countries mentioned above, Malaysia has no clear legislation requiring children to be immunized. The nearest Malaysia has on the statute on vaccination in Malaysia is Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988, which is more concerned with preventing infectious disease importation and regulating contagious disease spread in Malaysia (Asari et al, 2019). It has been noted that there is currently no debate on disease prevention and termination within a legal system.…”

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A Comparative Study on Childhood Vaccination Policy in the United States, Australia, Europe and Malaysia

Rahman

Razali²,

RIDZUAN³

et al. 2022

IJHTC

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Vaccination from an early in life is one of the most effective medical strategies for reducing infant mortality and morbidity while also ensuring the well-being of society. Following World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, vaccination is provided free of charge to children worldwide as part of the country's maternal and child health programmes. Nevertheless, many people believe vaccines are harmful and unnecessary, even though they are widely accepted as an effective preventive measure in public health. Many previously eradicated infectious diseases have reappeared because of vaccine hesitancy. Due to vaccine rejection, vaccine avoidance is becoming increasingly common around the world. As a result, the WHO has identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the top ten global health threats for 2019. However, policies that encourage parents to vaccinate their children, on the other hand, may increase their willingness to do so. Government policy instruments such as mandatory regulation, incentives, promotion, and education can be used to influence parental intentions. Policy measures can encourage parents' intentions to vaccinate their children. Consequently, governments can use policy instruments like required regulation, incentives and promotion to control parents' intentions. This paper examines relevant literature on childhood vaccination policies in several countries, including Malaysia, using academic journals and observations from various articles. It is hoped that this study will add to existing knowledge about childhood vaccination policies around the world.

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A Comparative Study on Childhood Vaccination Policy in the United States, Australia, Europe and Malaysia

Rahman

Razali²,

RIDZUAN³

et al. 2022

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“…Compulsory vaccination as an enrollment requirement may be necessary to protect the public interest. For instance, the compulsory vaccination requirement can help to increase the level of herd immunity and to protect children at school from infectious diseases (Asari et al, 2018). Mustafa Khan and Zulkipli ( 2018) highlighted the problems that may arise due to the absence of specific legislations pertaining to compulsory childhood immunisation in Malaysia.…”

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“…However, it can be argued that Section 31(1) of the Child Act 2001 which states that "Any person who, being a person having the care of a child-(a) abuses, neglects, abandons or exposes the child in a manner likely to cause him physical or emotional injury or causes or permits him to be so abused, neglected, abandoned or exposed; or (b) sexually abuses the child or causes or permits him to be so abused, commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to both" can be applied in the issue of refusing to vaccinate children by including this action under the definition of neglect, under the said section. In addition, the scope of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (PCIDA) is limited to matters related to the prevention of importation and control of the spread of infectious diseases, and has yet to specify compulsory vaccination as part of the infectious diseases eradication regime (Asari et al, 2018). Therefore, these are some of the limitations that need to be addressed.…”

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Compulsory Vaccination for Children: Violation of Human Rights?

Shukor

Khan

Ghazali

2021

UUM Journal of Legal Studies

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Immunisation protection includes vaccination programme that is very crucial to prevent the spread of disease among children or those with low immune systems. However, the cases of contagious diseases such as measles have increased dramatically in many countries around the world, including Malaysia. This may be partly due to the rise of certain groups or movements that do not believe in the efficacy of the vaccines. This paper outlined the scenario and existing framework on the administration of the vaccines in Malaysia, with respect to the practices of some countries namely the United State, Italy and Singapore on the implementation of the immunisation programme to its community. Subsequently, this paper highlighted the issues on compulsory vaccination on whether it violated the fundamental liberties incorporated in the Federal Constitution. The researchers adopted a doctrinal approach, whereby materials were compiled from the Malaysian and other jurisdictions’ legislations, case laws, journal articles, and databases. This paper is intended for policymakers as well as the public to understand the possibility for implementing compulsory vaccinations from a legal perspective.

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“…Nonetheless, there are loopholes in the law to make parents vaccinating their children compulsory (Asari et al, 2018) and most likely became an attribute to the failure of the parents to comply with the childhood vaccination schedule (Abdullah, 2016). Malaysia recorded 18 cases of diphtheria two deaths in Kedah and Malacca in June 2016 (Abas, 2016).…”

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A Mixed-Method Analysis of People’s Perception and Behaviour on Vaccination Program in Online Social Media

Soelar

Mustaffa

2022

MJMR

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Introduction: Social media has been a major source of various parties obtaining misinformation about vaccination programs and it has raised doubts about the vaccine, especially among parents. Vaccine hesitancy was listed as one of the top ten issues that threaten global health by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019. Therefore, this study aimed to examine sentiment on vaccines from Facebook pages, focusing on Facebook users’ views on vaccination programs through a mixed-method approach, which is a qualitative and quantitative combination analysis. Methods: This analysis uses all comments posted on Facebook pages downloaded using Facepager software from 01 December 2020 to 31 December 2020. R software is used to clean the comments and performed the sentiment analysis, while Gephi software is used to perform the semantic network analysis. Results: Out of 5,055 comments, the majority of the comments are negative sentiment (49.33%), followed by positive (32.58%) and neutral (18.08%) sentiment. For the negative sentiment, tolak, mati, and cucuk were the most frequent words ever used. For the positive sentiment, terima, setuju, and selamat were the most frequent words ever used. The positive network centered around the word dajjal focused on the word lab and FDA. In contrast, the negative network centered around the word vaksin focused on the word semulajadi and kerajaan. Conclusion: These findings are useful to understand the problem of parents who are skeptical of the vaccination program and also can be a guide for public health to communicate with the public through social media.

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Compulsory Childhood Vaccination in Malaysia: Public Health versus Parental Autonomy

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

A Comparative Study on Childhood Vaccination Policy in the United States, Australia, Europe and Malaysia

A Comparative Study on Childhood Vaccination Policy in the United States, Australia, Europe and Malaysia

Compulsory Vaccination for Children: Violation of Human Rights?

A Mixed-Method Analysis of People’s Perception and Behaviour on Vaccination Program in Online Social Media

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