Učinki cepilnih potrdil na svobodo gibanja

The COVID-19 pandemic made the governments to come up with measures like vaccination passports as a way of controlling the spread of the disease. In the process of writing this thesis, I analyze the effect of the passports on our freedom of movement and raised controversies regarding ethical questions legality, social justice and social divergence, I am going to research the UK and EU region while giving the examples and comparing some EU member states (Sweden, France), because its regulations largely follow European guidelines. I also examine how the restrictions impact different socio demographic groups, posing important questions around how fair they are, again declaring how fair access to vaccines were. I conducted an interview with Dr. Čedomir Sargić, who is the Head of Public Health at the Serbian Institute for Public Health, in order to collect more information about the health and ethical aspects of vaccination passports. Based on the interview, his observations indicate how, while vaccination passports may help minimize risk of transmission, they also came with issues of individual liberty and may inadvertently be part of discrimination unless supported by open communication, fair procedures, and institutions in which one has faith. The study tries to find a balance between public health and privacy of individuals, proposing how to manage and create ethical digital health policies. For vaccination passports to be trusted and safeguard people’s rights. The policies must be made with scientific transparency.