...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- The main purpose of a vaccine is to prevent children from getting an infectious disease that can lead to death. With the correct information provided to families, the vaccination rate of children can be raised by providing the reasons why vaccines were created to benefit children of the world, and it is important for children to receive all their vaccines. ------------------------------------------------- Background of the Problem (history and context, or misconceptions) Vaccines have been deemed as a negative and unnecessary step in order to protect children of the world. Parents have associated children vaccines with chronic illnesses, syndromes, and negative side effects. It has also been said that the infectious disease rates are extremely low that there is no real reason to vaccinate your children. (www.publichealth.org) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Body: 1st Major Point Correct information about vaccines Evidence/ Support for 1st point A – Research on vaccines B – Evidence to break myths about vaccines C – Statistics of how many children’s lives are being saved by getting their vaccines, and how we can improve those statistics 2nd Major Point The benefits for children that receive their vaccines...
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...Don’t Wait, Vaccinate! In the recent few years, researchers, doctors, and parents have been having a huge debate on whether or not children should be required to have all of the vaccines suggested by The Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Many parents refuse to have their child(ren) fully vaccinated because they fear that the child may suffer from a mental disability such as autism. Parents make that decision because they are only looking at the risks for their own child’s health, but the don’t keep in mind the health of the people that are constantly around their children. There have been too many deaths from vaccine preventable diseases. “Since the 25th anniversary of HIV, there have been about 2.1 million deaths from vaccine preventable diseases; 1.4 million of those deaths were children under the age of five-years-old. This is a very alarming statistic, and something needs to be done to help lower these numbers. It needs to be required that parents have their juveniles vaccinated because without their immunizations they are putting their child’s health at risk, and also the people who are around them, on a daily basis. Vaccines are one of the most cost-effective inventions in the medical field (Colgrove), and the cost is just going to get even larger as more research is done. All of the different vaccines have helped reduce the number of deadly infections and diseases people can get. Most, if not all, health care providers recommend that health care workers, frequent...
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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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...HPV Vaccine Information For Young Women - Fact Sheet [pic] Two vaccines are available to prevent the human papillomavirus (HPV) types that cause most cervical cancers. These vaccines are bivalent vaccine (Cervarix) and quadrivalent vaccine (Gardasil). One of the HPV vaccines, Gardasil, also prevents HPV types that cause most genital warts. Gardasil also has been shown to prevent some cancers of the anus, vulva (area around the opening of the vagina), and vagina. Both vaccines are given in 3 shots over 6 months. Why is the HPV vaccine important? Genital HPV is a common virus that is passed from one person to another through direct skin-to-skin contact during sexual activity. Most sexually active people will get HPV at some time in their lives, though most will never even know it. HPV infection is most common in people in their late teens and early 20s. There are about 40 types of HPV that can infect the genital areas of men and women. Most HPV types cause no symptoms and go away on their own. But some types can cause cervical cancer in women and other less common cancers— like cancers of the anus, penis, vagina, and vulva and oropharynx (back of throat including base of tongue and tonsils). Other types of HPV can cause warts in the genital areas of men and women, called genital warts. Genital warts are not life-threatening. But they can cause emotional stress and their treatment can be very uncomfortable. Every year, about 12,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer...
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...sure that their child was vaccinated, then maybe one day diseases could be eradicated. Vaccinating children and teenagers is important because it can help give them a healthy life, it is safe, and it can save lives. Many people, mainly parents, believe that vaccines cause more harm than good. They think that shots can damage or even destroy the immune system of a child...
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...Authoritative Guidance Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 605-10-25-1 The recognition of revenue and gains of an entity during a period involves consideration of the following two factors, with sometimes one and sometimes the other being the more important consideration: a. Being realized or realizable. Revenue and gains generally are not recognized until realized or realizable. Paragraph 83(a) of FASB Concepts Statement No. 5, Recognition and Measurement in Financial Statements of Business Enterprises, states that revenue and gains are realized when products (goods or services), merchandise, or other assets are exchanged for cash or claims to cash. That paragraph states that revenue and gains are realizable when related assets received or held are readily convertible to known amounts of cash or claims to cash. b. Being earned. Paragraph 83(b) of FASB Concepts Statement No. 5, Recognition and Measurement in Financial Statements of Business Enterprises, states that revenue is not recognized until earned. That paragraph states that an entity's revenue-earning activities involve delivering or producing goods, rendering services, or other activities that constitute its ongoing major or central operations, and revenues are considered to have been earned when the entity has substantially accomplished what it must do to be entitled to the benefits represented by the revenues. That paragraph states that gains commonly result from transactions and other events that involve no earning process...
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...article “Why skipping vaccines is a public, not personal, health choice”, she argues that taking all the recommended vaccines is important to maximize the health of our society. She says that by taking vaccines we avoid spreading disease to people around us, including friends, family, and the elderly. Larking writes to the public who are not taking vaccines, to convince them why they should take all the recommended vaccines. Larkin’s article, “Why skipping vaccines is a public, not personal, health choice”, has a couple strong points but her argument badly lacks in evidence and she includes too much irrelevant information. Larkin has one strong factor in her article, she includes at least 5 quotes from experts throughout the argument. For example, “Vaccinations not only protect you. They also protect those around you,”. That quote came from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices...
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...Vaccinations are a topic of great debate in the United States. Some of this debate generates positive discussion about vaccines, their safety, and why they are an important factor in public health. However, other discussions help to spread false information. The anti-vaccination movement in particular has detracted from the public’s ability to truly understand the benefits of vaccines. It is important to be vaccinated in order to protect their own health, the health of those in their community, and to prevent potential spread of diseases internationally. Vaccines relate to personal health in that they work to protect a person from dangerous and even deadly diseases. The weakened pathogens present in vaccines provoke an immune response when...
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...diseases continue to spread many people are having second thoughts about whether to require preventative vaccines. It’s leading many people to question laws that allow parents not to vaccinate their children. So, if we are so afraid of an epidemic outbreak; then why do we have such laws, allowing parents to opt out of vaccinating their children? Vaccinations should be required for every child. To estimate the vaccination rate in the context of the 2015 measles outbreak Maimuna S. Majumder, MPH (Master of Public Health), and his colleagues obtained data from the California Department of Public Health and HealthMap media alerts. They used the incidence decay and exponential adjustment (IDEA) method to approximate the effective reproductive number. They...
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...potty training or losing teeth. However, in recent years more parents are choosing not to have their children vaccinated. Although many believe that vaccinations do more harm than good, vaccines should be mandatory because they are beneficial to the economy, provide safety for those who cannot get vaccinated, and protect future generations. One reason as to why many parents neglect to have their child vaccinated is the cost of vaccines, without health insurance vaccinations can be out of reach for some families with financial issues. When in reality vaccinations are economically beneficial to the general population as well as the parents of the child....
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...Vaccines: The Right Choice? Alex Hauke Walmart Pharmacy Abstract This research paper takes an in depth look at the question of whether vaccines are the right choice when it comes to your health and staying healthy. Opposing views say that vaccines are unsafe and pose more risks than benefits, this paper explores those claims using rebuttable sources and helps readers to better understand vaccines and what their benefits and risks are. Most believe that the benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks but some still have doubts and some very rare cases of vaccines causing disease have added to this doubt. This paper explores the world of vaccines in an effort to educate the less knowledgeable. Research Findings Introduction The history of vaccines begins with the long history of infectious disease in humans, and usually it is reported that the origin goes back as far as Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, 400 B.C. He described diphtheria, mumps, and epidemic jaundice among other conditions (Hussein, et al. 2015). The earliest methods of immunization and protection against smallpox dates back to about 1000 A.D., and are attributed to the Chinese. It has been said that the son of a Chinese statesmen was inoculated against smallpox by blowing powdered smallpox sores into his nostrils. Another way of inoculation was the removal of fluid from the sores of an infected person and then rubbing it into a cut or scratch of a healthy individual. It took almost six centuries...
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...school to Highschool. All of the schools had one thing in common which were vaccinations. If you were a student in the Baltimore city public school system you were required to get specific vaccines. If you did not have the vaccines that you were required to have, you were not allowed to go to school. One of the vaccines that were required was the Measles and Mumps vaccine which prevented the child from having a disease outbreak. It was expected for you to get one dose after your first birthday. After the first dose, you were expected to get another dose between the ages of 4 and 6. The vaccine is a immunization vaccine, it was a mixture of various diseases....
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...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 Prevention, AAP was quoted as saying, “they [vaccines] may have mild side effects…but they do not last long...
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...The vaccine itself has evolved since the release. In an article called "Estimating the Effectiveness of Tetanus-Diphtheria-Acellular Pertussis Vaccine (Tdap) For Preventing Pertussis: Evidence of Rapidly Waning Immunity and Difference in Effectiveness by Tdap Brand" author Ruth Koepke, a scientist, researches the safety of vaccines and how the Dtap vaccine has changed over the years. The Dtap vaccine was once known as the Dtwp vaccine (diphtheria, tetanus, and whole cell pertussis) but people once thought that the older vaccines were less effective, which is why we now use Dtap. Many also think that the long lasting protection from the Dtap vaccine is expected to decrease over the years which is another reason why there is a slight reoccurrence of pertussis these days. Koepke strongly explained “prior to Tdap availability [Dtap for people older than 7 years of age], a large statewide outbreak of pertussis occurred in Wisconsin, with high incidence rates reported among adolescents” (Koepke para 3). Basically the people that get effected by pertussis are people above the age limit for the Dtap vaccine. Therefore a lot of those people have not gotten vaccinated or they may not have completed all five doses required to complete the series. Older adolescents and adults tend to spread these diseases to children who have yet to be vaccinated...
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...attend school with children who have not been vaccinated? Would it bother you? I’m sure there are several different answers to these questions. This paper will focus on the reasons why unvaccinated children should not be allowed to attend public schools as well as the benefits of vaccination. Every parent wants to raise a healthy child. Every parent wants to make sure their child is protected from infectious diseases and wants to do everything in their power to prevent any illness in the future. Every day there are thousands of babies born in this world and as parents we know that their immune systems are not ready to take on the illnesses that this world has. So why not protect your child? The American Academy of Pediatrics state that childhood vaccines are 90 – 99% effective in preventing disease. The risks of not being vaccinated far outweigh the small risks associated with vaccination. This is an issue that some parents face each time we prepare our children to attend public schools. We all know the common cold is air born and school aged children are prone to picking up that strand from another child. There are also other diseases that children can pick up from their classmates like chickenpox, measles and pertussis (whooping cough). If we vaccinate our children when they are scheduled to be, they are less likely to be sick in the future. For many years there have been reasons for a child not being vaccinated. Some individuals have claimed that it is due to religious...
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