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The notion of Poverty has been a controversy and concern in South Africa over many years. Poverty and economic status have the ability to cause detrimental outcomes on a child’s development, and especially on their schooling experience. Over time, developmental theorists have examined various perspectives and approaches regarding child development, in response to the Childs reaction to various environmental stimuli. This essay will justify why Poverty and Social Economic status have a…

Discussion A needle, containing different strains of the virus itself, protects humans against life threatening viruses! But how is this possible? A vaccine contains a small portion of the weakened virus, therefore, when Doctors vaccinate their patients they are injecting a small quantity of the Yellow Fever virus. An individual who has gotten vaccinated may experience minor symptoms of Yellow Fever however; symptoms will not reach phase III. Vaccines simply imitate the virus which helps the…

This belief started in 1998, after a British physician claimed he had found evidence that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine was linked to autism. This possibility has been thoroughly explored and no study since then has found a link between vaccines and autism. The original study from 1998 has been withdrawn by the UK medical journal that originally published…

The biggest job of Scientists that study procedures in medical fields and stem cells has always been to find cure for the incurable and to prolong the lives that would be cut short because of these diseases. There have been many different experiments that scientists have performed that seem promising but ended up failing in some way, but right now in this century the biggest medical advancement opportunity is in stem cells. With the help of all the scientists studying stem cells, Embryonic Stem…

effective, therefore many parents argue why put children through the pain of vaccinating them when it there is possibility that it won’t even work. The biggest controversy about vaccines and their side effects, has been around MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and that they it causes autism. The original claim that MMR caused autism was in 1998, when Andrew Jeremy Wakefield, a British surgeon,…

A quarter of all deaths, annually, are the result of infectious diseases; immunizations and the programs dedicated to preventing these ailments claim to have saved three million lives, in the world, each year (Marfe, 2007). Economically, immunizations have an influence on medical costs associated with a healthy individual and their community. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2011) believes the continued human benefits and controlled medical costs are dependent upon preventative…

Small children, grown adults, even the elderly, all of these people can be negatively affected by people not getting the proper vaccinations. Imagine a family member or a friend getting sick because of something that could have been prevented by an action as simple as getting a vaccination. Many of the diseases that can be prevented by vaccines lead to death. The problem with not getting vaccinations is potentially spreading malicious diseases that could have been controlled through preventative…

Autism has been known to be a very difficult disease, not only for the child but for the parents as well. Autistic children see the world from a different perspective, it feels disorganized and disorienting for them. They have a lot of developmental problems in personal, social and intellectual functioning. Moreover, they lack proper communication skills, causing them to retreat into themselves. Behaviors like these can also be the reason for a lot of anger tantrums since children become…

For as long as diseases and viruses have been around, people have been looking for a cure for sickness. Society has yet to develop cures for everything, but there are plenty of preventative methods, which can help keep the body healthy. The most viable preclusion is vaccination, which is an injection that helps produce antibodies and better immunize the body. Vaccines have been around since 1798, when the smallpox vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner. Despite how helpful vaccines are, many…

Introduction Vaccines were a major technological advance in medicine. Vaccines provided a quick, simple, and accessible way for people to develop immunity to a certain disease before experiencing the symptoms. Although vaccines diminished the number of cases of these diseases dramatically, certain groups of people started to oppose immunization, sparking a “vaccine war.” These groups of people reject vaccination due to the side effects linked to vaccines, the belief that an individual has a…