Vaccination Analysis

Vaccination was first introduced globally for small pox and later on extended to other communicable diseases which are now known as vaccine preventable disease. Vaccination is beneficial both for individuals and community. This bring us to the ethical dilemma - Vaccination of a healthy child with the intention of protecting both the individual child and the community at the same time exposing the child to the theoretical risk of exposure to disease products whether live, attenuated or killed. There was a time when people never questioned the government or their physicians. Now because of more public awareness and accessibility to medical information, they are questioning the safety aspects of vaccines.

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? Parents with infants and young children have been tussling with this proverbial question for several decades now. With the advent of the internet and the World Wide Web, parents have been bombarded with a plethora of information about pros and cons of vaccines from all kinds of sources, some creditable, and some are not. To the non-scientific community, these conflicting information can create problems in the decision making process; thus, forcing parents to make the wrong choices and putting their offspring and others at risk. However, this article will attempt to address the importance of vaccinations, how vaccines work, why we should vaccinate, and why parents should not be afraid to vaccinate their offspring.

In healthcare, we are seeing an influx of children with diseases that were once eradicated by vaccinations. It does not help that in recent years many public figures, be it actors or politicians, have begun speaking out about the effects vaccinations potentially have on children. Whether they have done the proper research or not, their fame and notoriety brings about attention that most would not. So, what does the increase in non-vaccinated children mean to the rest of those that accepted the vaccinations. A closer look at immunizations for adults and children, the herd immunity that is in jeopardy, and the culture and reasoning of the anti-vaccination group may shed some light on the culture of anti-vaccination.

Illnesses and diseases continue to develop and spread constantly throughout the world. These harmful viruses have always had a huge impact on humanity. Viruses caused many deaths and outbreaks in the past and present because viruses can be passed on easily. Luckily today there is a way to prevent the spread of these viruses, which is vaccines. Vaccines are used to provide immunity against diseases. Once vaccines were introduced there were a lot of speculations and assumptions. There are many people who are for and against vaccines, but today there are many health professional, experts, doctors, and parents who believe that vaccination is a lifesaver. Vaccination is a controversial topic for many parents and guardians of children. Vaccines

When one is given a vaccine, he or she is being injected with a killed microbe to train his or her immune system to be able to fight it off, in hopes to prevent a future disease. Whether or not to vaccinate one’s child has been a controversy through the years, because some vaccines have had unplanned side effects. These unplanned side effects have caused parents to be skeptical on whether or not to vaccinate their child, despite getting vaccines can possibly prevent a fatal disease. Many questions have risen from this practice of vaccination, in which Dr. William C. Douglass attempts to answer in his article, “How To Win the Vaccine Argument Every Single Time”. Although William C. Douglass provides decent arguments

There is much debate to whether or not children should or shouldn’t be vaccinated. Every day there are many children and even adults who have died from diseases that could have been prevented before they came up. Immunizing our children is important so that they will stay healthy and so will other children around them. Children are at the most risk for developing diseases when they are growing up. They will play amongst other children and can potentially bring home germs and a common cold. Nowadays, many diseases are being eliminated since parents and their children are being vaccinated. If parents decided against vaccinating their children, there could be some serious consequences. Diseases can be spread and there can even be fatalities if the diseases were left untreated. Vaccinations are extremely important because lives would be risked every single day by many parents deciding against vaccinations for their children. They should also be mandatory for every child, even if they do not attend schools. Parents protect their children from many things; diseases should be one of them.

Some people face these risks when not exposing themselves or their children to diseases by not getting immunized. People shouldn’t have to suffer if there is a way for them to save themselves and immunizations help with that. The American Academy of Pediatrics by Margaret Maglione suggests that there are several reasons why parents choose to not expose their children to these vaccinations. She asserts concerns about vaccines for various reasons that led some parents to decline recommended vaccinations and it has led to the progression of the illnesses to the population. Therefore, more people will become stricken with sickness. Being able to take care of themselves by allowing family members, children, and whoever to vaccinated can save lives. The histories of deadly diseases and their effect on the in the U.S. population have proven to be an example of why people should be immune to such avoidable

My current event article is about the Indiana State Department of Health sending letters to parents that urged them to get their children and teens a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease. The vaccination would prevent most of the common types of HPV and the cancers associated with it. The letter was sent to about 305,000 parents whose children had no record of having gotten the vaccination for HPV, and it encouraged parents to get their children vaccinated. A spokesperson from the State Department of Health said the letters were sent to parents of children with no record of having the vaccination, which was recorded in the state immunization information system called the Children and Hoosier Immunization Registry Program. Many parents were upset by this, and one parent called the health department's effort "intrusive" and he "balked at the idea of a state vaccine database keeping track of children." Critics of this vaccine say that they refuse to vaccinate for a specific reason, and others say that the vaccine could promote sexual activity among children and

Immunizations were created to keep children and adults healthy and safe. Edward Jenner administered the world’s first vaccination known as the smallpox vaccine, which had killed millions of people over the centuries (). Jenner administered the vaccine on an eight year old boy who he exposed to the fluid of a cowpox blisters, the boy developed a blister which eventually went away. Jenner then exposed the boy to the smallpox disease and the boy did not get sick, this led to the smallpox vaccine and the drastic decline in the smallpox disease. Fast-forward three centuries later and the small pox diseases is eradicated do to people receiving the vaccine. Immunizations are extremely important to the world’s overall health. Babies and children are most vulnerable to disease because they are son young and their organs and bodies are growing at a rapid rate. It is important for children to be immunized against vaccine preventable diseases such as: rubella, diphtheria, and pertussis (whooping cough), and a host of other diseases. High vaccination coverage has significantly reduced vaccine-preventable disease morbidity and mortality worldwide, especially among children (Baggs et. al., 2011). While some people focus on the cons of vaccinations, there are many pros to children receiving vaccinations.

The controversy concerning vaccination for children has been a debate for many parents. A vaccine is defined by the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention as, “a biological agent used to prevent very serious illnesses and diseases, such as smallpox, measles, influenza, tuberculosis, and hepatitis by injecting a weakened infectious organism into the human body” (CDC). Once the dead organism is injected our bodies create antibodies from them which can begin protecting us. Some parents are skeptical of how injecting kids with weakened diseases could ultimately protect them which manifest some distrust in doctors. Also, a big fear of parents are the side

When children who have been vaccinated do contract a disease, despite being vaccinated against it, they usually have milder symptoms with less serious complications than an un-vaccinated child that gets the same disease. It is true that some children who receive vaccinations may still become ill when exposed to other disease-ridden children. Research shows that 70-90% of the entire population must be vaccinated to attain “herd immunity”, “the resistance of a group to attack by a disease to which a large proportion of the members are immune.” (Farlex, 2012) When herd immunity is accomplished the spread of the disease can be averted throughout. If all parents were to take proper responsibilities and keep their children’s immunizations up-to-date, herd immunity would be achieved against all 16 of the major life threatening diseases.

Medical advancements are one of the finest revolutionizing trademarks of the 21st century. From HIV vaccines to cholera vaccines, many strands of fatal diseases can now be prevented. The majority of people would desire themselves and their children vaccinated, right? Surprisingly enough, a 2011 study from Public Health Reports shows about 63% of parents who don’t vaccinate say they believe their children will acquire serious side effects, while only a 31% of parents who do vaccinate believe the same thing. Fear of side effects are the leading cause of lack of vaccination in children. Brain inflammation, seizures, and death are just a few of the devastating and rare possibilities. Even though these terrible circumstances are mostly fatal, people

Throughout history, it has been shown that vaccines make a significant impact on the health of our communities and “administration of these vaccines led to dramatic reduction in the number of cases of, as well as deaths from smallpox, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, measles, mumps and preventable diseases” (Jacobson, 2012, p.36). Generally, those involved in campaigns for and research in these preventable diseases attribute vaccines for children as the main contributing factor to the overall decline in diseases such as measles, mumps, smallpox and pertussis (Jacobson, 2012). In the public health setting, there are many issues that threaten the health and safety of the public, not just in the local community but the nation and world-wide. One such issue, surfacing in public health, is the issue of vaccinations; those who choose to vaccinate, those who choose not to vaccinate and those who do not

On a daily basis, I visit multiple facilities to advise on changes in immunization regulations and schedules. However, because of the nature of my work and the people I work with, rarely do I look at the mechanisms of vaccinations or its advancements. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) vaccinations stimulate the immune system with an infectious agent transformed in such a manner that it does not trigger harm or disease, nevertheless guaranteeing that when it confronts the host with that infectious agent, the immune system can adequately counteract any ill effect. In essence, the function of vaccines showcases our ability as living organism’s to uniquely reproduce, store, preserve and convey information from generation to generation (Devlin, 2011). However, it takes two specific nucleic acids for this process to come to fruition. Fundamentally, our body uses deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to store the information that determines the sequence of ribonucleic acid (RNA) to give structure to proteins and establish the central dogma (Devlin, 2011).

A vaccine can be described as a medical preparation which improves the action of the immune system against many microorganisms, and sickness. Vaccines classically resemble biological elements that originate from a microorganism that causes a disease. It is habitually made from mediators such as killed or debilitated microorganisms, a surface protein or a toxin. The action of this mediator is to help the immune system to identify microorganisms as foreign, kill them, and preserve a record of the invader to help the immune system recognize and terminate these microbes easier in a future outbreak. Vaccination procedures have been implemented into contemporary medicine to maintain the new generations of citizens without any type of exposure to dangerous waves of diseases such as tetanus, pox, meningitis, measles, Diphtheria, Pertussis, and many others. Nevertheless, an initiative against vaccination has arisen throughout the recent era due to the criticism and antagonism from many parents in the social media, which claim that vaccines can have dangerous effects on people. This has resulted in parents choosing not to vaccinate their children. The goal of this article is to examine three main points, first whether the antagonism exhibited by parents who are against vaccination is grounded on concrete scientific proves, second, what can be the significances of rejecting vaccination on the public, and third, how the government and health professionals could implement cleaver