children getting permanent immunity, they are wrong. Because the complications that come with the disease is included and that can be serious. As far as immunization-they just follow the immunization schedule and hopefully all will go as planned. In all fifty states, immunization of children is required as a condition in school enrollment. “Immunizations have a clear community benefit and therefore, individual…
IDSA (2010), believes that having vaccination programs will be the most effective to protect patients and avoid the transmission of seasonal and pandemic influenza. Having a policy in place that supports universal immunization against influenza is significant to the nursing profession, as we encounter and care for individuals who are affected with this serious disease that leads to hospitalization and sometimes death. Nurses have an ethical and moral obligation to be…
Do the Benefits of Vaccinations Outweigh the Risks? Vaccinations. It is a word that would make one cringe at the hearing of it. It is a word that would make a child dread going to the doctor. This word has become a hot debate of parents in the future of a child’s health. But now most states require it mandatory before a child can enter school in a public setting. Though some children have not been vaccinated due to religion beliefs, medical reasons, and parents’ concerns of side effects. But…
believe in individual rights and the rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit, I also recognize that public health and public safety are extremely important in our society… Certain communicable disease have been largely eradicated by immunization policies in this country and we should not…
child could carry the MTHFR gene when vaccinated. Due to a weak immune system, the child receives an injury with this cocktail of immunization. In short, this becomes counterproductive to the individual; as the immunization is to protect them from potential disease. Their weak immune system cannot cope with the quantity of toxin given to them in the form of immunization. Some children develop an onset of Autism following the MMR vaccines. As a result, most parents believe that MMR vaccine is…
fundamental right to the upbringing of their children, including the rights to refuse mandatory child immunization. Vaccination is a requirement for all students, but there is also an exception granted with ”religious exemptions” for people who have religious beliefs against immunizations. Religious exception is the right given to individuals to stand against getting vaccination or immunization due to strong religious beliefs. If individuals are looking forward to using religious exemption to…
Disease Control (CDC) estimated that around 732,000 American children were spared from death and 322 million childhood illness cases were prevented between the years 1994 and 2014 because of vaccinations. Based on this astonishing statistic alone, immunizations should be mandatory for humans due to the fact that it protects the public, prolongs the human race, and improves the quality of life for those vaccinated. While protecting the public, vaccines also prevent the transfer of disease and…
Today, there are thousands of children in the United States whose parents have chosen to not have vaccinated. These unprotected children are the result of their parents’ misguided fear of vaccinations and the side effects that can accompany them. Due to these parents’ worries and the threat their choices pose to others, there has been much debate on whether or not parents should immunize their children. What these parents fail to realize is that by deciding not to vaccinate their children, even…
and support for vaccinations. The Vaccine Assistance Act would set “a new foundation for federal immunization policy and set a precedent for federal involvement in vaccination promotion that subsequent Democratic administrations would mimic and expand upon” (Conis 20-21). And that is exactly what following Democratic administrations did. The Carter Administration developed the Childhood Immunization Initiative in 1977. During a time when the nation had a “struggling economy, oil crisis, and…
article defines what vaccinations are and describes the importance of immunization for the general public. Cloos and Davidson list the most common illnesses and diseases that people are susceptible to, and how the respective vaccines prevent and combat these viruses. They provide support as to why the public should vaccinate themselves, as well as their children. • Cloos first defines what a vaccine is, stating that “immunization is the process that makes an individual no longer susceptible to a…