Mandated Vaccinations For Children?

In the 1850s the first school vaccination requirement were enacted to prevent smallpox. Federal and state efforts to eradicate measles in the 1960s and 1970s motivated many to mandate policies. By the 1990s, all 50 states requirement for children to be enrolled in school must receive certain immunizations and if these requirements were not met than children were not allowed to be enrolled in school (Center for Disease Control Prevention, 2010). For example, in the state of California, private public school or daycare cannot admit children unless vaccinations were received for all ten of the diseases. If the California Department of Public Health implements a requirement for vaccination parent can be allowed to obtain personal belief exemptions that would allow parents to opt out of vaccination for their children if form is filled out by healthcare professional that states vaccinations were countered to personal beliefs. This law has not been implemented as of yet but should be in 2016. The healthcare of policy decision in laws can have an influence on individuals based on the decision that are made. Health care policy and issues can affect providers and patients in many different ways. Stakeholders’ in the policymakers for vaccination main concern is the safety and health of children so the implement exemptions of laws from concern about vaccine

Jeffrey Kluger believes that “Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a parent need to keep hearing.” (“TIP Talk!” 2016) Vaccinations relate to the first amendment for more than one reason. One of the reasons being the first amendment relates to vaccinations because of freedom of religion. If a religion does not allow you to get vaccinated, and there is a mandatory vaccine for a child within that religion; you are breaking the first amendment’s laws of the constitution (“Vaccination & religious exemptions” 2018). A vaccine is a substance used to provide immunity against one or several diseases. Vaccinations were first

Unlike many provinces in Canada, Alberta does not have a mandatory vaccination program for children. A mandatory vaccination program is needed in Alberta as it would not only reduce the number of infections caused by various diseases, but it would also force parents to vaccinate their children, keeping their children and the people around their children safe from infection. A chief of medical disease states that, “several studies showed that states or districts that allow philosophical exemptions to mandated vaccines have higher rates of vaccine preventable diseases” (qtd. in Offit). Therefore, if parents are forced to vaccinate their children it would ensure that their children are kept safe from diseases and would also lower the overall rate of infection by diseases in Alberta. If a mandatory vaccination program was initiated in Alberta it would also crush many controversies and myths that have circulated in the media and the public. This is because if parents were forced to vaccinate their children then they would witness firsthand how none of these myths are caused by vaccines. Some of these myths include: Vaccines cause autism, multiple vaccines can increase the risk of harmful side effects, and vaccinations can cause infant death syndrome (“What Are Some Myths”). Furthermore, Studies have shown that vaccines decrease mortality and infection rates among the general population and also have shown that vaccines are more effective at preventing mortality if vaccines are

If parents were to stop vaccinating their children then outbreaks of diseases would start happening again. For example, Japan’s citizens stopped giving their children the whooping cough vaccines because false rumors that the vaccine causes illness spread across the country. In 1975, only ten percent of Japan’s infants received the vaccine; because of this over thirteen-thousand cases of pertussis ( whooping cough) appeared and over forty-one deaths occurred (CDC). if Japan would have made the pertussis vaccine mandatory then the amount of whooping cough cases would have decreased because the parents would have continued to give their children the vaccine and then the forty-one children most likely would not have died. America should make vaccines mandatory before the parents of the U.S stop vaccinating their kids and outbreaks start to occur. If everyone were properly vaccinated than medical officials could eradicate detrimental diseases. It is estimated that because smallpox was eradicated that five million lives are saved a year. (UNICEF) Polio is on its way to being eradicated with eighty-percent of the world being vaccinated. (CDC) If vaccines are mandatory then everybody will be vaccinated which will lead to complete elimination of the disease. If the vaccines are administered properly to everyone on earth, than sixteen million lives would be saved in this year alone. By expunging theses diseases, we are

Vaccination has been a long-established and adopted practice in the U.S. since its inception. Having been required for certain school districts since the early 1800’s, many have wondered if the government should play a role in this. Vaccines are safe and effective, eradicating numerous diseases which were once prominent. However, they are neither perfectly safe nor perfectly effective. Government enforced vaccines disregard modern medical ethics as well. Nevertheless, they should be widely encouraged.

Many countries require their citizens to receive certain immunizations. In the United States, state laws dictate mandatory vaccinations, some of them are vaccinations required for children to enter school. Controversies over the efficacy, safety, and morality of compulsory immunization stem from the longstanding tension between two, sometimes opposing, goals: protecting individual liberties and safeguarding the public’s health. “Individual versus health priorities were

A vaccine is a “suspension of weakened, killed, or fragmented microorganisms or toxins or of antibodies or lymphocytes” that is administered predominantly to thwart virus replication of a particular disease (Vaccine). It acts as a stimulant for the immune system of a human body which assists in developing adaptive immunity to a specific pathogen. Shockingly, vaccines themselves are created using components found in the virus or the bacteria itself (Offit). As of present, no federal vaccination laws exist in the United States of America although all states require children to be vaccinated against certain diseases before entering public schools. Exemptions are made based on religious and philosophical beliefs. Currently, most vaccines are administered by either intramuscular or subcutaneous injections, but sometimes, intradermal (in the skin), intranasal (through nasal structures) or oral (through the mouth) routes are used by doctors for administrational purposes (Winchell). The virus’ reproduction speed drops significantly once the antigen is successfully given to the infected person.

Taking a child to the pediatrician to get shots used to be fairly simple. In 1922, children would receive the smallpox vaccine and that was it according to the National Vaccine Information Center. There was no other vaccine mandated by the United States at that time. In the early 1980’s however, that changed drastically. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended 23 doses of seven vaccines to children attending kindergarten. In 2014, states mandated 29 doses of nine vaccines to the same age group. With these requirements, children would receive 69 doses of 16 vaccines before they turned 18. With all these new vaccines being mandated, controversy flared up over the safety and effectiveness of these vaccines. Parents heard the rumors about side effects and decided against vaccines that have saved millions of lives. Despite the controversy, vaccines should be mandated for children in the United States based on the safety of the vaccines and the immense amount of lives saved because of them.

I believe vaccinations should be a mandated requirement because without them our children could potentially become very ill or even die. The diseases vaccinations prevent are very serious. The primary benefit of getting ones’ child vaccinated is that they help prevent these diseases, most diseases that they

Vaccinations has become controversial in recent years. A growing number of parents feel that vaccines can cause harm. They believe that they have the right to decide whether or not to have their children vaccinated (“Introduction to Vaccines: Current Controversies” 6). This is true, however, public health and individual rights should be equally taken into consideration. While there is growing number of people who claims that mandatory vaccinations is against civil liberties and are not safe, vaccinations are scientifically proven to be effective and have given greater benefits to public health.

Vaccines make your body familiar with certain diseases. They work by making the body produce antibodies to fight the disease you were just vaccinated against. That way, after being vaccinated, if you were to come in contact with that disease your body would recognize it and create the right type of antibodies to fight it off. Being vaccinated could save your life. Polio was once a widespread deadly disease but due to vaccination the United States has seen no new recent reports of Polio. Smallpox is another example; the vaccination is not given anymore because the smallpox vaccine eliminated it. If more people were to get vaccinated many more diseases could also disappear.

The protection of individual liberties that persists today is wider than before in public healthcare. Since the firsts vaccinations were developed in 1885 through 1930 morbidity and mortality has decreased significantly. During time with this eradication, compulsory vaccination has been a debate during decades in US society. However, this issue today has become an argument to deny school admission for children nationwide for not having the vaccination prescribed by the law. According to Oreinstein & Yang (2015) “Vaccination policy authority is predicated on using the best available evidence and minimizing intrusion on individual freedoms. This balance must continue to inform policymaking from development of vaccine recommendations to establishment and evaluation of mandates.” With this guideline there is a line where government cannot cross into a personal decisions of the population. This requirements is not limited the nine basic vaccination, but

We have all raised our eyebrows when the person sitting the row behind us starts coughing, and not just the “soda went down the wrong pipe” cough, but the real, mucus breaking, uncontrollable hacking. Likewise, many of us have also tried to not get too close to the person with the visibly red, irritated nose and the constant sniffling that comes with the absence of a tissue. As a society, we tend to be conscious of the threat of contracting a disease, but regardless of these common concerns, opposition to mandated vaccinations for school-attending children continue to be raised. The effectiveness and overall safety of vaccines have repeatedly been questioned by society (especially when it comes to vaccinating infants and young children), and some studies have possibly even shown the danger of certain vaccinations. However, upon closer examination, it is clear that vaccines have prevented more disease and have improved the overall health of the United States, and consequently, should—with few exceptions—continue to be mandated in our school system.

Immunizations are the most effective way of preventing future diseases and are crucial to stop the spreading of current diseases, which are killing thousands. Vaccines have nearly completely wiped out some diseases, for example, according to Medicinenet.com, before the vaccine for diphtheria, over 10 000 children died from it each year and now cases of it are hardly seen. Now that there is a vaccine for measles

A majority of people have all been in the doctor about to get a shot that the parents told the child would help them not get sick and after getting the shot they would then be given a sticker and then sent out to continue the day. Being able to vaccinate a child from a disease is something that was not possible 220, years ago which caused a child to have to try and fight the illness with their immune system. In the United States of America all 50 states require parents to have their child vaccinated in order to attend public school. Most states do allow parnets to file to be exempt from having a child vaccinated. The year 1855 was Massachusetts big year to be the first state in America to make it a requirement for school age children to have be vaccinated. The most common reasons for not having a child vaccinated are lack of knowledge of how they can affect the world around them or people being a part of a religion that do not see a reason to have a child vaccinated. A study found that with every dollar spent on having a child vaccinated it would then save the family and society around $16.00 that would have been used once they got sick. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) There are many different kinds of vaccines, but they all work the same way by injecting the body with the viruses or bacteria the human body might have to fight in the future. Childhood vaccinations should be mandatory for young children around the globe because in the world it can be what