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Vaccines contain materials that are prohibited (e.g., porcine products and fetal cells)
No major faith explicitly opposes vaccinations. On the contrary, all major faiths in the U.K. have urged their followers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Nonetheless, several concerns about vaccinations have been identified that arise from religious considerations. These concerns can be divided into four groups.
Although religiosity is not consistently associated with higher vaccine hesitancy when conducting international comparisons, there is tentative evidence that vaccine hesitancy is greater among the religious in an American sample. Vaccination rates are also particularly low among some fundamentalist religious communities around the world.
This theme claims that vaccines use materials that are prohibited or considered impure by the religion. For example, porcine (Islam, Judaism) and bovine (Hinduism) products, or foetal cells (Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism).
People’s religious convictions must be respected and it is understandable to worry about the compatibility between the dietary laws of one’s faith and vaccines. People want their decisions to be consistent with their deepest beliefs and values.
En dialog mellan patienter och hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal är mest produktiv om man förhåller sig empatiskt och ger patienten möjlighet att bekräfta de underliggande orsakerna till attityden, samt att man uttrycker förståelse för dessa. Därför är det viktigt att förstå attitydgrunden bakom personers uppenbara åsikter. Att bekräfta en persons underliggande attitydgrund innebär inte att vi måste instämma i detaljerna i deras argument. Vi kan till exempel bekräfta att:
People’s religious convictions must be respected and it is understandable to worry about the compatibility between the dietary laws of one’s faith and vaccines. People want their decisions to be consistent with their deepest beliefs and values.
The main leaders of the world’s major religions support and encourage vaccinations, recognising that there is no incompatibility with their beliefs—and this includes Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism.
Vaccinations only contain materials that might give rise to a religious concern in rare cases. The protection of human life is always an act of love for other humans, which is in line with the core ideas of almost all religions.
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