Immunization

births. Furthermore, Pakistan has a neonatal mortality rate of 42 per thousand live births, and an infant mortality rate of 76 per thousand live births. In response to this local community health need, WHO also introduced the Expanded Program of Immunization to address the leading cause of these mortalities, vaccine-preventable diseases, and to ultimately achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 (reduce child mortality) and currently SDGs 3. Potential causes include lack of community awareness…

(Ezekiel Emanuel). Immunizations, or vaccines, have been saving lives for quite some time. The first vaccine ever was performed in 1796 by Edward Jenner. In that time period, smallpox was a huge problem in mankind. When Jenner came up with a vaccine for smallpox, the disease was eradicated! The first vaccine, was created to prevent people from getting smallpox. From there on, vaccines continued to be performed. In fact, polio has been almost eliminated thanks to immunizations. Other…

Picture two young children; one fully and completely vaccinated and the other never having received any kind of vaccination at all. Unfortunately, both of these young children fall drastically ill from the same virus. Consequently, the child who had previously become vaccinated and took all preventative actions made a speedy and full recovery while the other child passed away due to complications obtained from the virus. What if that one child's life could have been saved if he or she had…

Immunizations have received much prejudice in the recent years as to the cause of many health problems, when in actuality they remain around to manage many dangerous diseases from resurfacing. However, this fact will not stop parents from refusing them for their children. Even though there can potentially be severe side effects to vaccines, parents need to educate themselves in regards to them as they have not be proven to cause Autism, the schedule set for immunizations is effective, and that…

The case manager has the responsibility to provide the necessary care at low cost. “Case management is a collaborative process between the case manager and the client his or her family designed to identify and meet health care meds through quality, cost effective service” (Clark, 2015, p.287). You have to coordinate all the needs presented by the patient and refer them and make the approach to the necessary agencies that provide services for the patient not to be deprivide of them and all their…

I am privileged to provide care to the most vulnerable population the underserved. I know the desperate needs this community faces and want to continue making a difference in the lives of our most vulnerable citizens. I have made a commitment to work with this vulnerable population. I currently work in the area of public health; I understand that in order to meet the needs of this population it is important to understand the various challenges and by identifying these challenges we can…

We have cast aside the primitive mentality of medicine and have taken on the modern mindset, where we can create 3-D printers that grow human organs and oversee surgeries conducted by nanobots. Despite our advancements in technology, debates about vaccinations for children have occurred since their inception in the early eighteenth century. Many citizens accepted vaccines unquestioningly after the horrors of World War II, but people have since forgotten the frightening effects of diseases.…

Wary parent’s want to protect their children from any kind of risks. Immunizations are available and mandatory upon starting school. There are many different types of immunizations. “Vaccines are a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.” (Mifflin, 2015) Vaccines are a form of…

creation of the smallpox vaccine in 1796 by Edward Jenner, immunizations have been one of the most important scientific advances in history. Scientists and physicians have developed vaccines for highly communicable diseases such as measles, mumps, and the influenza virus. Diseases that were once fatal, such as polio, tetanus, and meningitis are now associated with much higher patient survival rates because of the life-saving immunizations. Due to the success of the vaccines, the federal and…

Argumentative Essay Part One: Vaccines Sitting in the doctor’s office, holding your precious child, the recommended immunization schedule is being explained to you. You can hear the doctor, but you are not really listening anymore. All of the information becomes gradually overwhelming when you think of them poking your daughter several times, injecting all sorts of foreign elements into her vulnerable, little body. You are pretty sure you received all of these vaccines when you were young, but…