Encouraging Vaccination Ethically: How Can Pox Parties for Grannies and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Be Avoided?

The article informs about the tradeoff between varicella infection among children and herpes zoster among older adults is unethical in deciding whether to encourage or discourage routine childhood chickenpox vaccination. Topics include raise a number of important ethical questions about the objectives of public health, health messaging, intergenerational fairness, and democratic transparency; and addition to the vaccination ethics literature to widen the discussion from vaccine mandates.