Presentation Rationale Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to inform my audience on the importance of vaccinating their children. My central idea is that current education is too lax, we need to better educate our new parents on the importance of vaccinations. Intended audience: My ideal audience for this speech would be pre-pregnancy and currently pregnant couples. Significance: The topic is very significant to my audience because unvaccinated children are becoming a rising problem and old diseases
Disease Control (CDC) distributes vaccines to state health departments and other local agencies. These agencies distribute them to private-physicians’ offices, at no charge to those receiving vaccines (Vaccines for Children, 2014). The Childhood Immunization Support Program (CISP) has
Communication Strategies Three initiatives focusing on hand-washing, flu immunizations, and staying home when sick will be the pillars of the student health initiative. Each campaign works in tandem to create success for the entire project. A successful plan includes clear and consistent communication through multiple channels to
Madelyn Conrad Health Class Applied Knowledge Assessment 4/28/16 Dear editor, There are many people today who do not understand or consider the importance of vaccines for themselves, their children, or their loved ones. Many do not take into account that immunizations can save a life as they can be protected from diseases that could have once killed thousands of children. Vaccinations are very safe and effective. They are under careful review by scientists and doctors and are only provided
Inflammatory response cause production of molecular signals that stimulate the production of cortisol, which is an important negative feedback regulator of the immune system. People who produce a lot of cortisol in response to inflammation are predisposed to develop similar symptoms as those of Cushing’s syndrome such as, diabetes, resistance to insulin, obesity, increase blood pressure, and abnormal levels of lipids in the blood. Therefore, according to these pieces of evidence, overwhelming the
Foremost, the importance of vaccines has long been ignored in the developing world. 3 million people still die from vaccine-preventable diseases each year, finds the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. (Global Immunization: Worldwide Disease Incidence). Vaccines have the potential to preclude most of these deaths and save millions of people. Case in point, Paul Wilson, Assistant Professor of Public Health at Columbia University, argued that, “wider use of available vaccines could help avert a
health sector, the importance of vaccination seems to be underestimated. Some of these public health practices not utilized to their maximum capacity hence disease that can be prevented by vaccines primarily remain a threat to the child’s health. Suggestions were drawn that the gap remains because, within the health sector, the process done on a vaccine by vaccine basis. This paper will clearly define the importance of vaccinating children and bring to light the critical importance of vaccination to
such as the Administration for Community Living (ACL) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). A few of the programs supported by these agencies are the Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI’s) Program, the Fall Prevention Program, and the Immunizations Program. The
Epidemiology Paper- Chicken Pox Grand Canyon University Community/Public Health Nursing NRS-427V August 8, 2015 Chicken Pox or Varicella is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the Varicella-Zoster virus that causes a blister like itchy rash all over the body. The rash is the disclosing indication of chicken pox (Mayo Clinic 2015). While signs and symptoms of chicken pox will usually appear one to two days prior to the rash, the rash itself will last from five to ten days. The symptoms
diseases. There are college students still being exposed to meningitis and even some people in the healthcare industry not staying current and questioning the efficacy of them. The purpose of this paper is to present some facts about vaccinations/immunizations, barriers to obtaining them and suggestions from research on how to overcome those barriers from a community health perspective. A vaccine is “an inactivated or attenuated pathogen or a component of a pathogen that when administered to the host