Neighborhood News According to a report written in 1988 the Institute of Medicine claimed the mission of public health was “to generate organized community effort to address the public interest in health by applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2011, p. 7). The article “Flu deaths expected to rise,” the public health is in jeopardy of a flu epidemic. In the article, “Officials confirm pollution worries,” the community faces a potential
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Takeda’s Vaccine Business Strategy CKMBA0621 Jenny Jie PENG 彭洁 Agenda 1. 2. 3. Why Vaccines? – – Key Trends – – – – Maximize value of current assets Major Drivers for Growth Why Takeda? Why Vaccines Create Opportunity for Takeda Current pipeline opportunities Short and long term growth potential Capability mapping for future growth How? Roadmap to Establish Takeda’s Global Vaccines Business – – – Opportunities and barriers to entry Strategic roadmap to enter global vaccines market and
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2003) For the past century, vaccines for diptheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, and now more recently, hepatitis B and varicella have programmed our immune systems to be powerful protectors of our health. Compulsory state immunization laws have increased the U.S. immunization rate to 77%, the highest ever. (Largent, 2012) Despite high immunization rates, there is an underlying progression of a movement of parents questioning whether the vaccines are contributing to health conditions
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Vaccines should be mandatory The invention of the vaccinations has been one of the greatest health interventions, saving millions of people from infectious diseases (Ehreth, 2002). The vaccine program has had extraordinary success in decreasing the spread of preventable diseases (Zimmerman, 2000). Research shows vaccines are safe, provide a way to protect your child and society, and help avoid wide spread disease. Vaccines are not completely 100% safe, but it is safer than the infectious
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immunity against 14 preventable diseases without the harmful onset of disease. These diseases are: Diphtheria, Hepatitis A (Hep A), Hepatitis B (Hep B), Haemophilus Influenza type B (Hib), Influenza (Flu), Measles, Mumps, Pertussis, Pneumococcal Disease, Polio, Rotavirus (RV), Rubella, Varicella, and Tetanus (CDC, 2012, p. 9). These vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) most commonly affect children, but may also target immunocompromised individuals and people with disabilities. Each is potentially fatal
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plagues and diseases and ultimately prevented them from surfacing again. Vaccines stimulate the making of antibodies and provide immunity to certain diseases such as Tetanus and Influenza. Once a child is born, specially during his first years, a series of injections are suggested by the pediatrician due to the fact that they can prevent health problems later on. However lately there is a debate among parents on whether the vaccines actually help protect against the disease or aid the surfacing of it
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Vaccines have double the human life expectancy for over 150 years and have eradicated diseases like smallpox and soon polio could be the next disease to be eradicated from the world. The concept of vaccines has existed around the world for hundreds of years. One of the first methods of vaccinations was known as, variolation (Nazarko, 2013). Variolation was popular in China as well as other countries in the Middle East during the 10th century. Asians and Middle Eastern people collected samples of
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spread of infectious diseases, than the vaccine. Diseases previously common to man, such as smallpox, polio, and whooping cough, are now prevented by this miracle of medicine, resulting in countless of human lives being saved. Despite controversial and considerable opposition from numerous anti-vaccine movements, vaccines are widely accepted to be
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assumed that vaccines are our one way ticket to having a good stable health and being immune to any outbreaks of viruses/diseases; however, this assumption is not necessarily accurate. Over the years vaccines have been noted to becoming one of many dangerous things to stay away from. The question that arises is why? As of now vaccines poses danger to the human body. If one were to research what vaccines actually do to the human body as a whole, then it should be question if vaccines are even worth
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Disease Control (CDC) recommends getting 28 doses of 10 vaccines for kids aged 0 to 6, however, there are currently no federal laws that mandate vaccination for all children (CDC, 2015). Immunizations keep our children safe, healthy, and most importantly, alive. Despite the high success rate and plethora of benefits of immunization, not everyone is on board. Though there is high pressure for children to be vaccinated, and all 50 states
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