Vaccines are one of the greatest modern medical inventions. Even though vaccines have saved lives, however, no medical product is proven to be completely safe. Vaccines can have rare and sometimes deadly reactions. To address such occurrences, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosts a program that reviews petitions for compensation of injuries caused by vaccination. The program is called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). The VICP was established in 1986 to reduce the number of product liability lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers that threatened to increase the cost of vaccines and lower life-saving vaccine administration to millions of people. In 2020, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, the HHS proposed a revision to the VICP. Specifically, the HHS proposed removing an injury called Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration (SIRVA) from the VICP's no-fault compensation table. The proposed revision of the removal of SIRVA has been the source for debate because it is clear through the establishment of the VICP's founding document that compensation for injuries caused by vaccine administration is required. The HHS is challenging the requirement of compensation for vaccine-related injuries through its proposed revision to the VICP's compensation table. By confronting the HHS's proposal for revision to the Vaccine Injury Table, this thesis demonstrates how existing policy prevents the HHS from making the revision. Using an analysis of precedent statutes and public health research, this thesis argues for the continued coverage of SIRVA with the current VICP.

Obligation to compensate for personal injury in connection with provision of health care This dissertation is focused on the obligation to compensate for personal injury in connection with the provision of health care. The aim of the dissertation is to analyse relevant general elements of the obligation to compensate for personal injury as well as relevant special elements of such obligation. The dissertation surveys the interpretation of conceptual changes related to the recodification of Czech private law in the area of tort law in connection with the provision of health care. Legal basis of the doctor-patient relationship will also be analysed because such analysis is crucial for determination which elements of the obligation to compensate for personal injury will regularly be applied in this field. Therefore, the first chapter is devoted to the legal nature of the doctor-patient relationship. The second chapter deals with the obligation to compensate for personal injury caused by the provision of health care, i.e. with the definition and analysis of relevant elements of such obligation in this field. The third chapter is focused on the wrongfulness as one of the significant elements of the obligation to compensate for personal injury; substantial attention of this chapter is aimed at the...

Magistro baigiamajame darbe nagrinėjamas pacientų teisių gynimo institutas Lietuvoje ir Danijoje. Temos aktualumą sąlygoja pacientų nepasitenkinimas Lietuvos sveikatos priežiūros sistema, kuris iš dalies yra sąlygotas nepilnavertiškai funkcionuojančios pacientų teisių gynybos sistemos. Danija pasirinkta kaip šalis, pasižyminti gerai sutvarkyta socialinio gerovės sistema bei aukštu gyventojų pasitenkinimo lygiu, kuris priklauso ir nuo pasitenkinimo sveikatos apsaugos sistema. Darbo tikslas – sistemiškai išanalizuoti ir palyginti pacientų teisių gynybos būdus Lietuvos Respublikoje ir Danijoje, įvertinti juos bei pasiūlyti pacientų teisių gynimo tobulinimo kryptis Lietuvoje. Vienas pagrindinių darbe naudojamų metodų - tai teisinių dokumentų analizė - analizuojami Lietuvos, Danijos, ES teisės aktai, reglamentuojantys pacientų teisių sampratą ir jų gynimo neteisminius ir teisminius metodus, teismų sprendimai, mokslinės publikacijos. Lyginimo metodu siekiama atskleisti pacientų teisių instituto panašumus ir skirtumus bei išryškinti lyginamos šalies privalumus ir trūkumus. Darbą sudaro trys dalys. Pirmojoje dalyje nagrinėjama pacientų teisių samprata bei jų reglamentavimas Lietuvoje ir Danijoje. Antroji dalis skirta ikiteisminių pacientų teisių gynybos būdų analizei, išryškinant egzistuojančius esminius skirtumus Danijoje ir Lietuvoje teisės skųstis ir teisės į žalos atlyginimą srityje. Smulkiau analizuojamos sritys, kurios iš esmės yra skirtingos abiejose šalyse -... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / This Master thesis deals with the investigation of defence modes of patients rights in Lithuania and Denmark from the comparative perspective. The relevance of the topic is proved by the dissatisfaction of patients with Lithuanian health care system which partly exists due to non properly functioning patients rights defence system. Denmark was chosen as a country with properly arranged social welfare system and high satisfaction level of its inhabitants, which is also characteristic to their satisfaction with health care system. The aim of the thesis is to carry out comparative analysis of defence modes of patients rights in Lithuania and Denmark, evaluate them and define the possible ways for the improvement of the defence modes. An analysis of legal documents is one of the main methods used in this research. While using this method legal acts of Lithuania, Denmark and EU regulating the concept of patients rights and judicial and extrajudicial defence modes of patients rights, ad judgements, research publications are analysed. Whereas the comparative method is applied while seeking to reveal the existing similarities and differences, advantages and disadvantages of patients rights in Lithuania and Denmark. The first chapter of the thesis deals with the analysis of the concept of patients rights and their regulations in Lithuania and Denmark. The second chapter is devoted to the analysis of extrajudicial defence modes of patients rights while revealing the existing... [to full text]

Le principe de réparation intégrale du préjudice corporel démontre les limites de son application actuelle. Alors que notre système juridique paraît enclin à toutes les sollicitudes envers la victime, celui-ci manque largement à son but : la multiplicité des régimes d'indemnisation, l'hétérogénéité des méthodes d'évaluation et l'insuffisante fermeté des concepts mis en oeuvre apparaissent comme autant de facteurs de disparités entre les victimes. À l'appui d'une étude ouverte au droit international, aux solutions doctrinales ainsi qu'à une appréhension ajustée de la notion de victime; cette thèse oeuvre pour une autonomisation du droit du dommage corporel respectant les valeurs d'égalité, d'humanité et de justice de l'indemnisation propres au principe de réparation intégrale du préjudice corporel. / The principle of full reparation for bodily injury demonstrates the limits of its current application. While our legal system seems inclined to all the requests to the victim, it largely misses its goal : the multiplicity of compensation schemes, heterogeneity assessment methods and insufficient firmness concepts implemented appear as factors of disparities between the victims. In support of an open study with international law, to the doctrinal solutions as well as an adjustedunderstanding of the concept of victim ; this thesis works for the empowerment of personal injury law respecting the values of equality, humanity and justice of compensation specific to the full compensation principle of reparation for bodily injury .

La révolution industrielle du XIXème siècle, marquée par la création des grandes usines, a entraîné une mutation de la classe laborieuse constituée d’ouvriers dont les conditions de travail étaient d’une dureté que l’on peine à imaginer aujourd’hui. L’état de santé des ouvriers représentait pourtant un enjeu économique et politique d’une grande importance. L’Etat a, en conséquence, produit une législation tutélaire visant à protéger les corps des travailleurs : une législation industrielle devenue droit du travail, dans le cadre de ce plus vaste ensemble que l’on dénomme le droit social. Le droit du travail assure un équilibre entre les acteurs des relations du travail. Il est, essentiellement, un droit de compromis à des fins de pacification des relations sociales, un compromis social entre les intérêts des entreprises et ceux des travailleurs salariés. Le « droit social », qui recouvre, au moins, le droit du travail et le droit de la sécurité sociale, est à la fois un droit de protection et un droit de réparation des atteintes portées aux corps des salariés par le travail. L’homme au travail a longtemps été considéré comme une machine de production et le corps perçu uniquement du point de vue mécanique. Mais le corps est le substratum de la personne ; il n’est pas une chose : il est la personne protégée par des règles pénales, les règles composant le droit civil des personnes – au lieu de relever du droit des biens – et celles qui consacrent et garantissent ce que l’on appelle volontiers, aujourd’hui, les droits et libertés fondamentaux. Aujourd’hui, le travail, activité productive, est beaucoup plus diversifié que celui du XIXème siècle. Les conditions sociales et du travail ont évolué avec le droit du travail qui est bien différent d’alors. Les risques professionnels sont différents et l’homme au travail, considéré comme une personne à part entière, peut subir des atteintes à sa santé physique et mentale. Si le droit du travail poursuit les buts partiellement antagonistes de préserver, à la fois, le capital et le travail, la question est de savoir quels instruments juridiques visent à prémunir les salariés des atteintes à leur intégrité physique et mentale que pourrait provoquer le travail. Celui-ci étant, cependant, source d’accidents et de maladies, il s’agit de connaître les outils utilisés par le droit positif afin de permettre la réparation de ces atteintes. / The industrial revolution of the nineteenth century saw the creation of large factories, leading to a change in the living and working conditions for the proletariat, whose working conditions were more difficult than we could imagine today. Worker's health became an economic and political issue of great importance. The State, therefore, passed guardianship legislation to protect workers' health: the industrial legislation become labor law, a subset of broader social laws. The labor law provided a balance between the actors of labor relations. It was essentially a law compromise for the purpose of pacification of social relations, a social compromise between the interests of business and those of employees. "Social law", which incorporates both the labor law and the social welfare law, is composed of laws to protect and rules to govern awards for damages for injuries incurred in the workplace. The working man has long been considered a production machine viewed only from a mechanical point of view, but the body is the substratum of the person; it is not a thing. A person is protected under criminal law and civil law, not property law; what we now call fundamental rights and freedoms. In today's workforce, productive activity is much more diverse than in the Nineteenth Century. Social and labor conditions have evolved, as has labor law. Occupational hazards are different and the working man, considered as a whole person, may suffer damage to his physical and mental health. If labor law continues tries to encourage capital gain and workforce safety at the same time, how effective are the regulations that are in place to protect workers from physical harm. Workplace injuries and illnesses will occur, so it becomes important to know the tools of french positive law created to insure reparations in the instances.