Since the vaccines have been implemented with the current child immunizations there have been preventative number of deaths such as 42,000 and 20 million cases of disease. This has showed an astounding amount of net savings rounding near the $14 billion dollar mark in direct costs and $69 billion in total societal costs says “Ten Great Public Health Achievements --- United States, 2001--2010,” 2011. Because of these vaccines the days of high mortality rates in children as well as young adults has fallen drastically as much as 97% in the age 20 bracket. This is a humungous achievement in…
The first pressing reason to vaccinate children is to prevent them from contracting diseases. It can hardly be argued that immunizations fail to protect the majority of children from getting the infection the immunization was designed to prevent. In the 18th century, for example, hundreds of thousands of Americans were infected by a crippling condition called polio. Polio was a terrible infection that caused sufferers to lose the use of their legs. Many had to walk with braces or crutches. Some lost the ability to walk and had to be placed in wheelchairs, while others were so disabled they became unable to engage in any physical activity, or even died of the condition. Polio was so prevalent it even affected American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Schnell 2)! Thanks to vaccinations, today polio is all but unheard of in the USA, and in other countries that immunize against it. This example alone should show the desirability of immunization. Who…
One of the controversial/hot topics or issues nowadays in health care in the US and the world as a whole is vaccination. The main purpose of vaccines is to control and prevent communicable diseases. The target is to vaccinate about 99 percent of the population. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “about 1.5 million children under age 5 years continue to die annually from diseases that are preventable via the administration of vaccines, making up approximately 20 percent of overall childhood mortality” (Maternal and Child Health, n.d). The WHO continues to argue with evidence that vaccination can prevent death from pneumonia and diarrhea which are the leading cost of death among children under five years old. Although vaccination…
Although vaccinations have been around for 200 plus years, today in 2013 it is still a most controversial issue. Vaccine by definition is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine). The National Institute of Health says “in other words, vaccines trick your immune system to teach your body important lessons about how to defeat its opponents.” As effective as some may say vaccines are there has been a significant decrease in people actively getting vaccinations yearly.…
For my essay, I am going to discuss the benefits of mandatory immunizations as well as the guidelines to be followed for all children. I will get to use reasons and facts as well as using a simple to complex approach. The benefits of vaccinations outweigh the risks of not getting the vaccinations. Some disease that can be contracted from not being vaccinated can become deadly. In addition, studies have shown there has been a lower rate of disease outbreaks from children that were properly immunized as well as adults that had received all their vaccinations as a younger child.…
Vaccinations are important in many ways. Not only to you, but to other people as well. Getting vaccinated helps prevent the spread of diseases. It’s more than likely that you can’t miss two weeks of work or school. Getting vaccinated also helps you to stay in work/school and be around your loved ones more…
Over 40,000 people die each year from diseases like I noted earlier, and it could have been prevented if they just would have got their vaccinations. I believe that some parents don’t prefer them because they over think and get scared because they don’t really know what is specifically in the vaccine but studies show that a lot less children and adults and prevented by certain diseases because they went and did what they had to do to stay safe.…
About fifteen percent of children in the U.S. are constantly absent from school because of illness, making them much more likely to fail and eventually drop out. If all schools would make everyone get vaccinated the number of ill children would go down. Immunization is very important for the health of all children. All children should be immunized before starting school to help prevent widespread diseases, to help fight infection, and expand the child’s immune system.…
Mandatory vaccines have saved many lives over the years. From smallpox to influenza, vaccinations have prevented thousands of people from getting sick and possibly dying. (Schuchat, 2011) Countries where vaccination programs are mandatory there are very few cases of preventable diseases. “To date, smallpox is the only vaccine-preventable disease ever to have been globally eradicated,” (Furgang, 2011.) The fight against infectious diseases starts at an early age. Children begin their series of immunizations at the age of 2 months and receive them until they enter into high school. Hospitals are not flooded with…
The first vaccine was created in 1796, by 1969 mandatory immunization laws were in place in twelve states, and by 2014 50 states had their own regulatory requirements for school age children. Until recently parents understood that children were to receive vaccinations in order to attend public school and simply abided by this requirement, but this is no longer the case. Due to research, studies, and key opinion leaders speaking out against vaccines, parents are now faced with the difficult decision of whether to vaccinate their child or not. There is data supporting the eradication of , however many of these diseases have made an unfortunate comeback due to the decrease in vaccinations. It is possible that other factors such as increased…
Children are very important in today’s society, they are the future. It is very important to help protect them and provide them with a chance for a very long and healthy future. Vaccinations are considered one of the greatest medical achievements of all time and they can help to protect these kids. However, many people are against vaccinations and believe that all vaccines don’t work very well, and are unsafe. A vaccine contains a weakened version of a disease called an antigen. This antigen is not strong enough to produce signs or symptoms of the disease but it is strong enough to create antibodies which can help protect you from this virus in the future. I believe getting childhood vaccinations is very important for many different reasons. Vaccinations are a huge benefit to everyone because they protect yourself and everyone else around you, they are very safe and effective, and they prevent outbreaks of preventable diseases.…
When children aren’t vaccinated, they are left defenseless against diseases like hepatitis B, measles, mumps, chicken pox, polio, pertussis (whooping cough), rubella, and more. All these diseases have the ability to easily kill a child within days, and if it weren’t for the vaccines protection over many children in the United States, the spread of these diseases would travel rapidly.…
Many people are unable to be vaccinated. Whether it is because a child is too young to receive a vaccine or a person has an allergy to the ingredients, some people are unable to be vaccinated. In addition an existing illness can prevent a person from being able to the vaccinated. This includes those who are undergoing chemotherapy (“Should Any Vaccines”). Vaccines need to be used to prevent these people from becoming sick. Between ten and twenty babies die from with the whooping cough because they are too young to be vaccinated (“Five Important Reasons”). These deaths are preventable if everyone is vaccinated. Widespread immunization will prevent those who can’t be vaccinated. This is known as herd immunity (“Should Any Vaccines”). Vaccines ensure diseases don’t continue to spread in response to one person being…
The chances of your child getting a case of measles or chickenpox or whooping cough might be quite low today. But vaccinations are not just for protecting ourselves, and are not just for today. They also protect the people around us like some of whom may be unable to get certain vaccines, or might have failed to respond to a vaccine, or might be susceptible for other reasons. Vaccines also protect our children’s children and their children by keeping diseases that we have almost defeated from making a comeback. It is important to continue immunizing, even if cases of diseases are rare. If one or two cases of disease are introduced into a community where most people are not vaccinated, outbreaks will occur. In 2013, for example, several measles…
Immunizations can reduce or even get rid of diseases for future generations. There have been diseases in the past that no longer exist because people got their immunizations and eliminated the disease all together. This led to people not even needing to receive these immunizations any more. Hopefully in the future, even more diseases will be eliminated due to people getting their immunizations as they should. By schools making it mandatory for students to be up to date with their immunizations, this helps us achieve a decrease in diseases in the…