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Hello Everyone, To me, looking through the lens of history regarding wellness provides insight into how each generation promoted wellness during their time. Using the lens of history allows people to use experiences from an earlier and similar situation to give us an understanding within the new situation (American Historical Association, 2021). Wellness has meant different things to different cultures in different eras. Wellness in ancient times was more focused on mental, spiritual, and physical wellness. Fast forward to today, many people will equate wellness to how physically fit a person is. It is critical to consider how our forefathers' wellness journeys impacted them, and to learn from their mistakes so that we don't repeat them. Wellness is a lifelong journey with ups and downs, what matters is that we keep moving forward (Global Wellness Institute, n.d.). A current event and its historical counterpart I investigated the COVID vaccination and pandemic in comparison to the polio vaccine and pandemic during the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. In the US alone, there were almost 6,000 deaths and 27,000 cases of polio at the time it was first made public in 1916 (Tucker, 2020). Prior to the development and implementation of a vaccine, polio caused severe illness to tens of thousands of Americans annually. Polio has no known treatment, and because it can kill adults and paralyze children, it was dreaded by many. Summer was the season when polio was most common. The public often avoided places where there were public gatherings, theaters, public pools, group meetings, and resort vacations since there was no treatment and people were afraid of the sickness. People made the decision to alter their habits in order to reduce their chance of getting polio. 3,145 people died and 21,269 people were left paralyzed from polio by the time 57,628 cases were documented in the United States in 1952 (Tucker, 2020).
The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk was authorized for use in the mid to late 1950s. Due to the disease's harshness, people waited in line to receive the vaccination. There were problems with the vaccination though. The vaccine manufacturer, Cutter Labs, tragically caused thousands of people to contract polio, 200 of whom were handicapped, and 10 more people lost their lives as a result of their vaccines (Abrams & Smith, 2021). In an effort to shield their children from the disease, people were ready to embrace the vaccination. They were frantic to keep their child from needing an iron lung or from becoming disabled. One of the vaccinations for youngsters that is necessary for school entry is the polio vaccine, which is being administered today. The COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine have faced some of the same difficulties as polio, including outbreaks, immunization campaigns, mistrust, anxiety, lockdowns, and bereavement for lost loved ones. We must study and comprehend the ways in which those who came before us addressed the current predicament. Everybody has an opinion about whether or not the vaccination is appropriate for them. However, I'm confident that my grandmother would advise us all to play our part in halting the virus's spread if she were still around today during this epidemic. The following is the link for the article referenced to this section: https://time.com/6126442/covid-vaccine-hesitancy-polio-smallpox/ My choice of a career in healthcare administration will be influenced by my analysis of the connections between history, culture, and wellbeing. Healthcare administration is a multidisciplinary discipline that includes social and public policy problems around access to treatment in addition to the technical components of managing healthcare delivery. In order to ensure that history won't be repeated, I must learn and comprehend how the hospital or medical
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