Essay On Importance Of Immunization

Preventive care is the most important treatment that pediatrics resorts to and the most important way of doing so is IMMUNIZATION. Ever since immunization was introduced as a method of preventive treatment it has reduced the child mortality rate to minimum. Smallpox is globally eradicated and polio and diphtheria is almost nonexistent in North America. Vaccination and immunization has saved lives of millions of children in the third world countries. Immunization is important for children because they are at a much higher of getting serious complication with diseases like measles, smallpox, polio, diphtheria etc. The four most important reasons why it is important to immunization are as follows:
Vaccination is a very safe and effective way to prevent diseases.
Immunization will save a child’s live.
Immunization saves you and your family time and money.
Immunization helps to create healthy new generation.
Immunization not only saves individual but the whole community. When we protect our community from infectious disease we protect our community. Therefore THE NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM OF THE U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL …show more content…
In a society which has so much access to public information it is very difficult for physicians and other health worker to convince parents about the risks of not vaccinating their children. Parents take their babies to a pediatrician for the general checkup when the baby is about two months old. This is one of the few times a pediatrician has access to address the issues regarding immunization. There are some parents who are very reluctant to expose their children to the dangers of vaccination. Some religious communities are also very opposed to vaccines. We have read news of health workers that were murdered in Pakistan. In the western world some parents are reluctant to immunize their children as an act of resistance to