Flu Vaccination: Positive And Negative Interventions

To get the flu vaccine or not to get the flu vaccine? This is a huge controversial question millions of Americans today ask themselves every year. There are many myths that come along with the topic of the flu vaccine that lead to people questioning the effectiveness of the medication. Safety for our families and loved ones is what we aim to achieve, but what are the pros and cons of this vaccine? What are the consequences and what are myths, but most importantly: what are the reasons we should get it in the first place? In this paper you will learn the many reasons for the flu vaccination and how it affects different populations beginning with children all the way to the elderly population. First of all, what is the flu

In this part of my assignment I will describe 2 different theories of behaviour change in relation to health.

The most dangerous diseases of our nation have been streaked out by widespread protection or immunity. This widespread protection has been the effect of an immense vaccination which is also called an immunization that introduces vaccines into the body. In this textbook, it mentions that a vaccine is “a preparation of killed, inactivated, or attenuated microorganisms or toxoids to induce artificially acquired active immunity.” (Tortora 487). Like anything else, there are many individuals who disagree with the common immunity or vaccination in general. These people base themselves off weak and false studies, which they then take and go further to spread their bias misled beliefs. These individuals do all of this without looking at the history,

Mandatory Influenza Vaccinations for healthcare providers can be a controversial topic for some and may propose a challenge to some provider’s ethical values and beliefs. The topic of mandatory vaccination for influenza (“flu”) has been widely studied and debated among professionals over several years. It is apparent that there is some movement towards a mandatory vaccination for influenza by healthcare institutions as the benefit out weighs the risk on several fronts. “Influenza infection is associated with 36,000 excess deaths and > 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States annually. It is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable death in the United States every year” (Babcock, Geminhart, Jones, Dunagan, & Woeltje, 2010, p. 459).

Usually, vaccinated children get sick after vaccination. This is because the flu virus has entered their bodies and sensitizes it against it. And, what’s more, the flu shot actually causes immunosuppression-weakened immunity.

Every year, millions of people start talking about the influenza virus and getting their vaccines as the flu season approaches, which starts around the October-November period and reaches its peak between December and March. Therefore, public health officials around the world- and in the U.S in particular- are constantly challenged by properly preparing for the annual influenza dilemma, given that this viruses, and other respiratory viruses, are a serious health threat to the U.S population and the world as a whole. Furthermore, what makes the influenza virus even more challenging to control is that it can mutate rapidly and reassort to form new strains, having the ability to reside in multiple animal hosts. In fact, many scientists and researchers have been doing in-depth intensive research so as to understand the mechanism behind this unique characteristic of the virus, try to find new ways to control it, and explore different areas of protection and vaccination.

The Health Belief Model (HBM) of health behaviour change was originally developed in the 1950s in order to understand and explain why vaccination and screening programs being implemented at the time were not meeting with success (Edberg 2007). It was later extended to account for preventive health actions and illness behaviours (Roden 2004). Succinctly, it suggests that behaviour change is influenced by an individuals’ assessment of the benefits and achievability of the change versus the cost of it (Naidoo and Wills 2000).

Today I got to experience giving middle school and high school students’ flu shots at Lanier County Middle/High School. I was expecting the students to be nervous and show signs of intimidation at the sight of the needle. Before going to the school, I helped the nurse gather the equipment we were going to use, which included, the influenza immunizations, Band-Aids, alcohol prep wipes, and gloves. We also brought colorful pencils and stickers for the students after receiving their flu shot. The nurse also made sure to bring the emergency kit, which consisted of epinephrine, just in case anyone had an allergic reaction.

In recent years encouragement to get flu shots has become a yearly mantra. Elderly, children six months to two years, health care workers and immune-deficient people are urged in the strongest terms to go to their doctors or clinics and get a flu shot. This group encompasses about 98 million people. In the fall of 2004 this was in the forefront of American and to some extent the Western World media with the shortage of this flu seasons vaccine. Current medical wisdom states that flu shots are safe, effective and prevent mortality. A recent study published by The Journal of the American Medicine Association (JAMA) has brought the current wisdom into question. On February 14, 2005 JAMA

Numerous studies have been conducted on the advantages of receiving an annual flu vaccine with an emphasis on the health related benefits at the forefront of each study. With the pros and cons of healthcare workers receiving an influenza vaccination being weighed, and findings suggesting the benefit(s) of vaccination outweigh the risks, another testament to the benefits of influenza vaccination has been researched which identifies an area of interest which may be intriguing to people; the financial aspect. Carolyn Buxton Bridges, MD; William W. Thompson, PhD; Martin I. Meltzer, PhD; Gordon R. Reeve, PhD; Walter J. Talamonti, MD, MPH; Nancy J. Cox, PhD; Heather A. Lilac, RN; Henrietta Hall, BS; Alexander Klimov, PhD; Keiji Fukuda, MD, MPH (2000)

Almost religiously I go to the CVS minute clinic to get my annual flu vaccination. Although the treatment was the same as every other time, something was different this year, the number of children at the clinic. This year, I noticed how few children were waiting at the clinic for a vaccination, and I thought to myself, why was that so. Then I though back to the years preceding, and I realized that almost every year, the number of children at the CVS dropped. My initial thought was that people were just becoming used to herd immunity, but then I realized that it was likely that parents were becoming wary of the potential side effects these vaccines could have on their children. This lead me to my quest on finding whether or not vaccines hurt society more than they helped.

In the elderly (P), does the flu vaccine (I) compared to no vaccine (C) reduce the incidence of the flu (O) during flu season(T)?

Illnesses have long haunted the human race. As long as these illnesses have existed, humans have developed ways to cure themselves, beginning with simple herbs and proceeding as far as vaccines and complex medicines. One cure that long eluded scientists was that of the influenza virus. Now, the influenza vaccine, or flu shot, saves thousands of lives a year and helps prevent serious complications resulting from influenza infection.

Flu shots are given because we experience a different flu season every year. The strains of flu covered by the vaccine changes every year.Flu vaccines are the sources of antibodies that develop in the body two weeks after vaccination. These antibodies provide protection against infection with the viruses that are in the vaccine. (Influenza (Flu), 2017). Booster injections are used to maintain the immune response at an appropriate level. Booster injections contain a smaller amount than the original immunization. Bothe the IM injection and the ID injection would be the best type of vaccination for fending off the flu. The CDC did not recommend the nasal spray during the 2016-2017 flu season and will not recommend it for 2017-2018 flu season.

There are advertisements for flu vaccines everywhere, but what the public doesn’t know is what exactly they’re injection into their bodies. Aluminum which is just one of the ingredients of the flu shot has been noted to cause several long-term side effects, one being a disease called Alzheimer’s. Aluminum is everywhere in our life and although it is abundant we as humans do not need it to survive. Aluminum is widely recognized as a neurotoxin and can be in some way controlled naturally when taking it orally by your digestive system, but once injected through the blood stream your body can not determine what too much or too little. It then lingers in the body for a while and affects neurons in the brain leading to neurodegenerative diseases. (Kawahara, D. 2011). The FDA has a maximum requirement for drugs administered via vaccine or antibiotics. The FDA’s maximus requirements for aluminum in an IV is 25 mcg per day, anything over that will by require a label saying that it contains aluminum and that is can be toxic if taken pass the recommended amounts. There aren’t any requirements for vaccines to have that label.