Engagement, balance, and timing. PLoS Biology. 13(8), 1-8. The article discusses parental concerns about the safety of vaccines because of the measles epidemic and misinformation from the internet, books, and other nonmedical sources. Also, it discusses how these parents refuse to vaccinate their children or delay childhood or delay childhood vaccines and therefore put community at risk for serious vaccine-preventable diseases. Parents want to control their decisions to vaccinate their children and what affects their children’s health. The article describes a framework that parents can use to make evidence-based decisions about vaccinating their children.

Heller, R. F. & Heller, T. (2002). A failure of public trust. The Practioner. p.511. …show more content…
She did a great job making this article objective. She is a credible source and the article was interesting to read.

Kwok, R. (2011). Vaccines: The real issues in vaccine safety. Nature. 473, 436-438. Kwok starts the article discussing a retired non-profit executive named John Salamone whose infant son became weak and unable to crawl after receiving the oral polio vaccine in 1990. She points out that Salamone’s son had a weakened immune system, therefore the infant contracted polio from the vaccine. Serious problems are rare from vaccines and are hard to prove. Kwok points out that it is very important for public health officials to communicate with the public to maintain public trust and explain that serious problems are rare. Kwok is an award-winning freelance science writer. She earned a B.Sc. in Biology from Stanford University, an M.F.A. in creative writing from Indiana University Bloomington, and a graduate certificate in Science Communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. This was a great article with very informative research. The article was objective and will be a great reference for my senior research …show more content…
(2013). Giving families their best shot: A low-medicine perspective on the right to religious exemptions from mandatory vaccinations. Case Western Reserve Law Review. 63(3), 869-915. Many states have proposed to make the HPV vaccine mandatory for children before entering school. This article points out that people who distrust vaccines worry about the safety of the HPV vaccine. There are religious concerns with the vaccine as well. The main point of the article is that new legal frameworks need to be created because state governments are quickly converting the HPV vaccine, a recommended vaccine, into a mandatory vaccine. The research in this article is biased in my opinion. It focuses only on the distrust and concern of safety of the HPV vaccine. Lu Hope, the author, is an associate at the Thompson Hine Firm in the Litigation group. She is qualified in the legal aspect of this article.

Midthun, K. & Bernier, R. (2004). Getting the science right and doing the right science in vaccine safety. The American Journal of Public Health. 94(6), 914-7. DOI: