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Opt-out policy and its improvements promote COVID-19 vaccinations

open access: yesSocial Science and Medicine, 2022
RATIONALE: Vaccination uptake is a major strategy to prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2 and curb the transmission of COVID-19. However, many people remain unwilling to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Xin Liu, Ning Zhao, Shu Li
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‘It’s like being conscripted, one volunteer is better than 10 pressed men’: A qualitative study into the views of people who plan to opt‐out of organ donation [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of Health Psychology, 2020
Objectives. To overcome the shortage of organ donors, Scotland and England are introducing an opt-out organ donor registration system in 2020. This means individuals will be automatically considered to consent for donation unless they actively opt-out of
Jordan Miller   +2 more
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The Politics of Opting Out

Conservation Biology, 2012
See also the Editorial by McPherson
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Opt-out and consent

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2015
A chief objection to opt-out organ donor registration policies is that they do not secure people's actual consent to donation, and so fail to respect their autonomy rights to decide what happens to their organs after they die. However, scholars have recently offered two powerful responses to this objection.
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Opting Out of Overoptimism

Scientific American, 2012
The article discusses the psychology of optimism, citing claims in the 2011 book "Thinking, Fast and Slow," by psychologist Daniel Kahneman that an optimistic outlook can have negative consequences such as overconfidence, risk taking, and a distorted view of reality.
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Opting out?

ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 2005
From all corners of the globe, the on-line revolution is proclaimed. The imperative is to connect; to shop, work, learn, be governed, even fall in love on-line. Government initiatives proliferate globally, stressing the urgency for citizens to become part of the so called Information Society.
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Opting Out

American Politics Quarterly, 1978
Voluntary departure from Congress through retirement is the second most common method of opening positions for new members. The susceptibility to retirement is quite predictable. The decision to retire involves assessing one's ability to do the job, the desirability of the job, and one's vulnerability to involuntary departure.
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Lodging of an Application to opt out and withdrawal of an opt-out

2018
On the effective date of the opt-out notification, a European patent without unitary effect (here: patent) is excluded from the competence of the UPC in respect of all its claims and for all countries of protection (on the latter point, → Rule 5.1(b) UPCARoP).
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Opting in vs opting out

British Journal of Nursing, 2009
The need to obtain family consent is a major barrier to organ procurement. Helen Noble discusses whether mandated choice for organ donation could work.
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The Danger of Opting Out

Scientific American, 2013
The article discusses why unvaccinated U.S. children pose a public health threat. Topics include the rise in the number of unvaccinated children in the U.S., the threat of widespread transmission of infectious diseases, and charts showing the change in vaccination coverage from 2006-2011 for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP) and measles, mumps ...
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