Özet:

Anti-vaccination reduces the rate of vaccination, which is one of the most important means of protection from communicable diseases, and increases deaths from communicable diseases. The underlying causes of anti-vaccination are fear of the side effects of the vaccine, prejudices about the vaccine, and lack of health education. Mandatory vaccination campaigns are public health practices that are effectively implemented to achieve the well-being and health of the general population. Vaccination provides both individual and community immunity. Thus, the transmission of the disease is also reduced. Anti-vaccination adversely affects the health of the general population as it inhibits herd immunity through vaccination. When viewed from a bioethical perspective, anti-vaccination contradicts the concept of utility by inhibiting both individual and social immunity. Anti-vaccination has been observed since the beginning of the 20th century, and anti-vaccines have used the discourse that it is their own body to decide. In the bioethical perspective, the concept of autonomy is the individual's ability to make their own decisions with their free will, without external pressure. However, in cases of epidemics and disasters, the benefit of the general society overtakes the individual's autonomous attitude. The emergence of individual autonomy in the form of opposition to vaccination threatens both public health and the health of the individual.

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