Herd immunity against COVID-19: considerations for compulsory vaccination for employees in Malaysia.

With the emergence of COVID-19, the health of human being around the world was affected largely. The number of infected cases due to COVID-19 is increasing worldwide and more people died because of the disease. One of the clusters for COVID-19 infections is at the workplace. Hence, vaccination is es...

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Main Authors: Shukor, Siti Fazilah, Ghazali, Farahdilah, Abd. Razak, Siti Suraya
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Published: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (HRMARS) 2023
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/105155/1/SitiSurayaAbdRazak2023_HerdImmunityAgainstCovid-19ConsiderationsforCompulsory.pdf
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spelling my.utm.1051552024-04-07T03:59:05Z http://eprints.utm.my/105155/ Herd immunity against COVID-19: considerations for compulsory vaccination for employees in Malaysia. Shukor, Siti Fazilah Ghazali, Farahdilah Abd. Razak, Siti Suraya RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine With the emergence of COVID-19, the health of human being around the world was affected largely. The number of infected cases due to COVID-19 is increasing worldwide and more people died because of the disease. One of the clusters for COVID-19 infections is at the workplace. Hence, vaccination is essential to reduce the rising number of infected cases in Malaysia. This paper intended to achieve several objectives, firstly, to examine the issues and challenges arising in mandating the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition for work and secondly, to analyse the mandatory vaccination practice in other jurisdictions. This paper adopts a doctrinal approach with references to case law, legislation, current issues and practices in other jurisdictions. Finally, this paper provides suggestions to implement compulsory vaccination at the workplace in forming herd immunity against COVID-19. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (HRMARS) 2023-07-10 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/105155/1/SitiSurayaAbdRazak2023_HerdImmunityAgainstCovid-19ConsiderationsforCompulsory.pdf Shukor, Siti Fazilah and Ghazali, Farahdilah and Abd. Razak, Siti Suraya (2023) Herd immunity against COVID-19: considerations for compulsory vaccination for employees in Malaysia. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 13 (7). pp. 1048-1064. ISSN 2222-6990 http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v13-i7/17324 http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v13-i7/17324
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topic RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
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Shukor, Siti Fazilah
Ghazali, Farahdilah
Abd. Razak, Siti Suraya
Herd immunity against COVID-19: considerations for compulsory vaccination for employees in Malaysia.
description With the emergence of COVID-19, the health of human being around the world was affected largely. The number of infected cases due to COVID-19 is increasing worldwide and more people died because of the disease. One of the clusters for COVID-19 infections is at the workplace. Hence, vaccination is essential to reduce the rising number of infected cases in Malaysia. This paper intended to achieve several objectives, firstly, to examine the issues and challenges arising in mandating the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition for work and secondly, to analyse the mandatory vaccination practice in other jurisdictions. This paper adopts a doctrinal approach with references to case law, legislation, current issues and practices in other jurisdictions. Finally, this paper provides suggestions to implement compulsory vaccination at the workplace in forming herd immunity against COVID-19.
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author Shukor, Siti Fazilah
Ghazali, Farahdilah
Abd. Razak, Siti Suraya
author_facet Shukor, Siti Fazilah
Ghazali, Farahdilah
Abd. Razak, Siti Suraya
author_sort Shukor, Siti Fazilah
title Herd immunity against COVID-19: considerations for compulsory vaccination for employees in Malaysia.
title_short Herd immunity against COVID-19: considerations for compulsory vaccination for employees in Malaysia.
title_full Herd immunity against COVID-19: considerations for compulsory vaccination for employees in Malaysia.
title_fullStr Herd immunity against COVID-19: considerations for compulsory vaccination for employees in Malaysia.
title_full_unstemmed Herd immunity against COVID-19: considerations for compulsory vaccination for employees in Malaysia.
title_sort herd immunity against covid-19: considerations for compulsory vaccination for employees in malaysia.
publisher Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (HRMARS)
publishDate 2023
url http://eprints.utm.my/105155/1/SitiSurayaAbdRazak2023_HerdImmunityAgainstCovid-19ConsiderationsforCompulsory.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v13-i7/17324
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