...The Importance of Vaccinations for Children Since Edward Jenner introduced the first vaccine, a vaccination against smallpox, in 1778 (Allen, 48) the world has been a bit skeptical. The concept of inoculation is counter-intuitive—what sense does it make to inject a healthy person with the very virus they’re trying to prevent he or she from contracting? The very idea of it seems dangerous, even reckless. The issue with this uneasy feeling about the safety and sense of vaccinations is ignorance. We do not fully understand our own body’s immune systems; therefore we cannot fully understand how vaccinations work. Many people are under the impression that extremely harmful diseases are, for the most part, wiped out or incredibly rare. They may not see the reason for immunizing themselves or their children. But the truth of the matter is that these incredibly harmful, even deadly diseases are very much prevalent in today’s world. People come into contact with these infectious viruses on a daily basis; it is only our immune systems that keep the infections at bay. And our immune systems can only fight off these diseases through the use of vaccinations. There is a growing percentage of the population that is choosing against vaccinating their children. These parents against child inoculation have various reasons for opting not to vaccinate, including health concerns, cost of medical treatment, religious or philosophical beliefs, or their place of residence. Large portions...
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...Influenza Prevention and Vaccination Program According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015), the influenza virus poses a serious health threat to vulnerable populations including adults 65 years of age and older, people suffering from certain underlying medical conditions, and health care workers (HCWs). From September 2012 to May 2013, the group most affected by the influenza virus was adults 65 years of age and older (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). Likewise, HCWs “… are at [an increase] risk for occupational exposure to (and possible transmission of) vaccine-preventable diseases” including influenza (CDC, 2011, para. 5). Therefore, I chose to explore the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System...
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...Vaccines are used to help your body prevent infections that can be harmful or potentially life threatening. There are many people who lack knowledge about vaccinations. Many of these people who lack knowledge are people who also do not want their children to have vaccines because of what they may have heard about vaccines. This article discussed many of the important facts about vaccines. The important facts discussed include the how vaccinations work, different types of vaccinations, safety of vaccinations, as well as recommended schedules for vaccinations. (Kaneshiro, 2014) The article discussed the different types of vaccines which are live, killed, toxoid, and biosynthetic. Vaccines are used to help your body to prevent infections and diseases...
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...Discussion The goal of this program would be to continually work towards changing HCW’s perceptions about influenza vaccination rather than institute a controversial mandatory vaccination program and risk alienating HMC employees. Studies conducted during 2010-2012 revealed that a multi-dimensional staff vaccination program that included education, training, and active informed declination was significantly more effective than a program that focused only on individual incentives. This was demonstrated by the rise in vaccination coverage from 88% in 2010 to 96% in 2012 at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Podczervinski et al., 2015). Researchers discovered that ultimately, the burdensome time and inconvenience of completing the required face-to-face...
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...Research Proposal The subject of my persuasive essay is asking the question: Should vaccinations be mandatory for all children. I will be debating why it is extremely important for children to be vaccinated. I believe all peoples, especially children of very young ages, to be vaccinated to help against any germs and illnesses they may come into contact with in their later years. The importance of vaccinations should be instilled into every human being for one simple reason: protection. I became interested in this topic upon being given this research assignment. I have many siblings and young nieces and nephews who I want to live very healthy lives. It is important to me that I express my concern to their parents about the importance of vaccinations to insure their children remain healthy. I believe this topic will surely interest my audience. I plan to inform them of the importance of vaccinations, as well as inform them of the risks of going without them. My main audience will likely be young children and their parents, as well as people who hope to one day have children of their own. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, “most childhood vaccines are 90% to 99% effective in preventing disease.” This quote answers the questions as to why vaccines should be necessary for all children. The AAP explains that if parents decide that they do not want their child vaccinated, they will be putting their child at a great risk. Unlike the Center for Disease Control and...
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...(HCWs) have been targeted for influenza (flu) vaccination. The first reason is to protect HCWs from disease and to prevent work absenteeism, particularly during flu outbreaks or pandemics. The second motive is to protect others such as co-workers and family members, especially vulnerable patients in their care since HCWs can be a significant source of nosocomial spread of influenza. When a healthcare professional receives a vaccination, it sets an example for colleagues and others in the community and increases the likelihood HCWs will advocate for vaccination. Purpose of the Intervention The purpose of the proposed intervention is to maximize vaccination rates in...
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...Don't Get Recommended Vaccines Before Travel” by Rachael Rettner, the study of Americans visiting travel clinics found that more than half of people who did not get a measles vaccination before traveling. Another study found that more than two dozen Americans were sickened with hepatitis A while visiting a resort town in Mexico in early 2015. The studied were presented here at IDWeek 2015, a meeting of several organizations focused on infectious diseases. “People did not inject vaccination before travelling because they were not concerned about illness”, the study said. “About half of all U.S. measles case are tied to people who catch the disease while traveling abroad”, said Dr. Emily Hyle, an instructor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, who led the measles vaccine study. Measles and hepatitis A are most infection diseases effect American’s health and outbreak. As a result, Americans should be aware of the dangers of infectious diseases. Injection recommendation vaccination when they go travelling. This article is relevant to me because I do not inject vaccination before travelling. I have never been to realize the importance of vaccines. Many adults think of measles as a child's illness , they don't have a chance to get sick. The article gave helpful information on how vaccination prevents people to get infection diseases. When you have some travelling plans, you can...
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...Smallpox and Vaccination Images are a significant tool in the history because it elucidates feelings, behavior and new tendencies in society (Leggat 1995). In the history of vaccines, it is not different; there are many pictures that explain reality in different societies at different times. From this context, this essay will analyze two pictures that link smallpox early attempts of treatment in two different societies. The first selected picture was found in AIDS: The Burdens of History a book wrote by Fee and Fox in 1988. The image explains the early vaccination technique called “Jennerian vaccine” that was a prodigious improvement in the history of medicine. I believe that this picture was intentionally made to show how the vaccination...
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...“Childhood vaccination has proven to be one of the most effective public health strategies to control and prevent disease” (Ventola, 2016). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) publishes yearly recommendations and guidelines for childhood immunizations. While these guidelines are available, parents may choose to decline, delay vaccinating, or find an alternative to the immunizations due various reasons. These reasons can be medical, religious, or socioeconomic. Research supports that, “the incidence, prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of many communicable diseases have significantly decreased in Western countries largely because of national immunization strategies aimed...
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...Amer El Ghali Jghali@knights.ucf.edu Vaccination Before we can understand why it is so vital to continue to vaccinate our population, we must understand what vaccination is. The concept behind vaccination involves tricking your body into thinking it is being attacked by a foreign pathogen. By stimulating the body’s immune system macrophages begin to “gobble” up the pathogens leaving leftover antigens in its wake. “Antibodies attack the antigens left behind by the macrophages. Antibodies are produced by defensive white blood cells called B-lymphocytes (CDC,2013).” After the antibodies attack and destroy all known pathogens, a T-lymphocyte also called a memory white blood cell stores this information about the pathogen and will mobilize if the pathogen enters the body again. This is a very important process as many people do not have this key ability of fighting off Infection and cannot be administered a vaccination because their immune system is so compromised their body might elicit a response. They rely solely on what we call “herd immunity”, which is achieved when a target percentage of the population is immunized. By having most of the population immunized it prevents the disease from spreading and limits the immunocompromised individuals contact with the pathogen. Prior to vaccination microbes were the number 1,2, and 3 causes of death in the united states, and what we regard today as just a few days of the fever was considered a life threatening...
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...Vaccination is Critical to the Health of Civilization One of the greatest achievements of modern medicine has been the development of vaccinations to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. This innovation has greatly improved the quality of life in modern civilization, and has nearly eradicated many deadly diseases. Children are vaccinated to prevent many illnesses in their early years and these vaccinations are carried out according to a set schedule through a child’s physician. These immunizations are a requirement for entrance to public school. This requirement is in place as a safe guard to protect the population from outbreak. There are many reasons for which parents are hesitant to vaccinate their child. Although there are some reasons that parents have for resisting...
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...last ten years or so, there has been a debate on childhood vaccinations. This debate all started from the acquisition that vaccines cause autism. Since the debate, many parents have been skeptical on whether or not they will get their children vaccinated. From the negative comments that are going around from highly respected people new parents doubt vaccines importance to the world. Parents are concerned, which they should be, about if vaccines are beneficial or harmful to their kid’s health? Some claim that vaccinations are needless and unsafe. With the misleading information in parent’s ears they are stuck with the big question. Should I vaccinate my child? Since this vaccine debate, “about 40 percent of American parents today has chosen to delay certain vaccines or outright refuse to allow their children’s physicians to vaccinate their children with one or more of the recommended or mandated vaccines” (Largent). As the rates of being vaccinated go down, it is putting not only that child in danger but also the whole community. Diseases that were once gone are on the rise.” A 2013 study published in the journal Pediatrics reports that California’s worst whooping-cough outbreak, which infected more than 9,000 people (Rothstein)”. Also “the CDC reports that from Jan. 1 to Feb. 28, 2014, 54 people in the U.S. have reported being infected with measles” (Sifferlin). The issue with the decrease in vaccination rates is it disturbs herd immunity. Herd immunity is having...
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...Throughout the test of man, vaccinations have proven their worth at crucial points to protect the health and welfare of the world. Vaccinations started with the first smallpox vaccine developed more than two centuries ago by Edward Jenner and has grown to eradicating/controlling diseases like polio, hepatitis, and other volatile diseases. However, there has been plenty of controversy over the effectiveness and safety of whether vaccinations are even necessary. As a society, we either take a risk of not getting vaccinated, which could possibly lead to costly hospitalizations due to illness or we take an important countermeasures towards exposing our children and ourselves to vaccine-preventable diseases. This is a no brainer! We must prepare our family and friends and step the future up for success. Vaccinating our children is one of the most important beginning steps we can take to protect their health and future. In 1998, a British medical journal (BMJ), concluded by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, claimed vaccinations were the root cause to child disorders like autism (Medical, 2011). In Wakefield’s study, children developed signs of autism days after getting the MMR vaccine. This study among others leads parents to question whether they should immunize their children or not. Even in 2007, actress Jenny McCarthy discussed her views on the national stage when she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show convinced that vaccines gave her son autism and seizures (Heuvel, 2013). The...
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...Topic: Vaccinations General Purpose:To Persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade people that vaccinations are a good thing. Thesis Statement: Everyone should be vaccinated or support vaccinations because (1)vaccines are safe and effective (2) you reduce the chance of spreading the disease to family members and the community and (3) you don’t want to pay the price of getting sick. Attention Step Nearly everyone in the U.S. got measles before there was a vaccine, and hundreds died from it each year; today, most doctors have never even seen a case of measles. Like all of you, I am part of the lucky people who have been vaccinated, however, there are many people around the world who are not as fortunate and others who are simply beginning to deny vaccinations. After researching vaccinations, I have become very aware of how much they actually benefit our society. According to the cdc, vaccines given to infants and young children over the past two decades will prevent 322 million illnesses, 21 million hospitalizations, and 932,000 deaths over the course of their lifetimes. Vaccines will have saved $300 billion in direct costs, such as medical expenses and a total of more than $1.3 trillion in societal costs over that time, because children who were spared from sometimes-devastating illnesses will...
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...Community Teaching- Influenza Vaccine Jessica Alves December 11, 2015 According to Healthy People 2020 a goal of theirs is to “increase immunization rates and reduce preventable infections.” The influenza virus is one of these preventable infections, which can cause serious harm to patients. The influenza virus is known as the “flu.” Everyone in his or her life has had some experience with the flu, whether that is himself or herself or a family member. What if there was a way to ensure people from contracting a strain of the influenza virus? Well, thanks to technology and medical research there is. There are three types of the influenza virus: Type A, B, and C. Types A and B are contracted and spread by human-to-human transmission. Type C involves animals to animals or animals to humans. The most common types that are seen are types A and B. The influenza virus is found through out the world. Transmission of this virus is via droplets. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), particles greater than 5 microns in diameter are able to transmit this virus. If a person sneezes and is standing within 3 feet, they too are at risk for catching this virus. Respiratory secretions that are spread and left on counter tops, doorknobs, hands, and other surfaces are potential ways of spreading and contracting the virus. Adults can transmit the virus a day or two prior to symptoms appearing to five days after. Early flu symptoms may just mimic a common cold. It is easy to see...
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