Aspectos éticos y jurídicos de la vacunación en niños, niñas y adolescentes en Colombia

Abstract

The recognition and understanding that the problems of children are different from those of adults and that these in turn vary according to the different stages of growth and development, allowed pediatrics to be consolidated as a specialty of medicine in the mid- nineteenth century. In an exhaustive review of the literature available in recent years, we appreciate a deficit on the ethical dilemmas that pediatricians face daily in our daily practice, which leads to a certain degree of uncertainty when proposing a solution to these problems. The target population of this work is any professional who carries out their activities in the field of health (doctors, nurses, social workers), people who work in the different administrations and organizations related to public and private health. We seek to provide tools for the resolution of the most frequent ethical, medical and legal problems of pediatrics in the daily practice of health personnel, through hypothetical clinical cases, which the reader will be able to solve with the knowledge acquired in each chapter of the book. in addition to allowing an assertive search and allowing the timely resolution of the patient's situation. Another point to highlight is to be able to serve as a reference and bibliographic reference for future research in this field.