Vaccines

In Australia, parental refusal of vaccines is a spreading a concern for the increased incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases in children. Vaccines play a significant role in protecting vaccine-preventable diseases in children, so it is crucial that healthcare practitioners understand the reasons that parents are hesitant to vaccinate their children (McKee & Bohannon, 2016). Contextual influences, individual and group influences, and vaccine-specific influences are groups of concerns that…

"Growing Up Unvaccinated" "Vaccination Debate" and "Vaccine Benefits," the authors explain their appeals. In the first article,"Growing Up Unvaccinated" Amy Parker use pathos and ethos. The next article,"Vaccination Debate" the author use ethos and logs. In the last article,"Vaccine Benefits" National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases use logs and pathos. These authors use these appeals to support their claim on to get vaccines or not get vaccines. In the article,…

receive 49 doses of 14 vaccines by the time they're six years of age. At the age of two months a child can go in and get their first series of doses. Between 12 and 23 months children receive the following vaccines: “Chickenpox (Varicella) Diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR), Polio (IPV), Pneumococcal (PCV), Hepatitis A, and Hepatitis B” (P.13). Some of the vaccines may be given as part of a combination vaccine, so that a…

The first thing that vaccines do for us is they will keep us healthy. ”We get vaccinations throughout our lives to protect against many infections” said the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Vaccinations are the early cure for many illnesses. National Foundation for Infectious Diseases also says, “ When you skip vaccines, you leave yourself vulnerable to illnesses such as shingles, pneumococcal disease, influenza, and HPV and hepatitis B, both leading causes of cancer”. Every…

Vaccines Cause Depression There is a popular misconception within the world of the internet regarding potential effects vaccination could have on mental health. These include, but are not limited to, claims such as it causes autism, weaker immune systems, and risky exposure to diseases. It is, however, important to realize that they all derived from misunderstanding of current data or based on outdated research. There exist many components to vaccines that have been blown-up out of proportion…

get immunized with the influenza vaccine. The article “Requiring influenza vaccination for health care workers: seven truths we must accept”, written by G. A. Poland, P. Tosh, and R. M. Jacobson identifies seven reasons why it is imperative to require all health care employees to receive the vaccine.(Poland, Gregory A.; Tosh, Pritish; Jacobson, Robert M. 2251) The article attempts to persuade the health care system and health care workers that the influenza vaccine prevents influenza…

contaminated. Some of the infectious diseases can be prevented with vaccinations. Vaccines contain weakened or killed germs that cause the disease. These vaccines cause the body to produce antibodies that fight against the germs. The antibodies then stay in the body to help future protection from the disease. “Vaccines prevent 10.5 million cases of infectious diseases each year.1” Due to the 90%-99 effectiveness of a vaccine preventing a disease, there should be mandatory requirements to…

Vaccines In the year 2016, according to the World Health Organization, there were about 89,780 people that died from the measles which is a disease that can be prevented by vaccines. Vaccines are a preparation of killed microorganisms that is administered to produced or increase the immunity of a particular disease(Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Vaccines have been proven to help keep people from getting certain diseases, but some people don’t want to get the vaccine because of personal beliefs.…

decrease in immunization rates is that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is linked to autism in children. According to healthychildren.org, “Extensive reports from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Institute of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conclude there is no evidence that MMR vaccine causes autism” (“Weighing the Risks and Benefits”). Many people seem to associate the MMR vaccine with autism due to the time it is administered. Autism is first…

Research Paper: The Vaccine Controversy Since the very first vaccine, there have been proponents and opponents, both arguing the effects of inoculation. For many, the idea of injecting a healthy child with any derivative of a disease is counterintuitive. In America’s reality today, with few major disease outbreaks and extremely effective health care, more and more people are shying away from this idea. But just because the devastating diseases of past years are out of sight doesn 't mean they…