Bloomquist Jessica
Professor Tuck
English M01A 10 AM
25 October 2017
Vaccinations: There Is No Reason Not To
Keeping yourself healthy can be done in a number of ways, but the most important few would be: eating healthy, check-ups, exercising, and vaccines. A vaccination is considered to be the most beneficial and protected precaution you can take. Less than 50 percent of all Americans got vaccinated in the 2017 flu season. The reasons to actually get vaccinated could include the money you waste on missing work/ medical bills, to getting friends and family sick, but a main concern is not what the vaccine is preventing, but what it is doing harmful to your brain and body. In studies starting in the 1990’s, people started to believe vaccines could be causing Autism in young kids.
It is known that for every dollar you spend per vaccine, saves you up to six dollars and thirty cents in medical costs. (Center for Disease) With the average immunization shot costing up to $20 copay, that would easily be $126, saved just for one vaccine. For someone without insurance, the typical vaccination can cost anywhere from $120 to $180 resulting in $600 of medical bills in the long run. (Center for Disease Control) Influenza is likely to drag out anywhere from seven to fourteen days, missing work can severely wreck a family with bills, for example, rent, water, and electricity. In more serious illness like hepatitis, the patient care is going to have to go to a new, much more serious extent. Hepatitis often leads to terminal illnesses like liver cancer and can prevent the liver from doing its job all together. Most insurance providers would rather pay for the vaccines as opposed to the entire medical bill if you were to be diagnosed with the illness, so most insurance companies offer a $10-$20 copay. Vaccines save lives and protect against the spread of disease. If you decide not to immunize your child, you put them at risk. Your child could catch a disease that is dangerous or oftentimes deadly. Vaccines have kept children healthy and have saved millions of lives for more than 50 years. Most childhood vaccines are 90% to 99% effective in preventing disease. In the United States each year, millions of adults get sick
Imagine traveling to the “Happiest Place on Earth”, Disneyland, with your family. While you are there a person that has not been vaccinated is walking around with the measles virus in their system. While that person shows no signs or symptoms of the measles, they are infecting others that haven’t been vaccinated, due to young age or other purposes. Now what turned out to be many people’s family vacations is now a life-threatening situation for some. This type of outbreak actually occurred during December of 2014, where 40 Californians were exposed to the measles at Disneyland and 91 additional cases of the outbreak strain also occurred from the people exposed affecting others (Blumberg et al, 2015). Outbreaks likes this can potentially be
Vaccinations have been shown to prevent many diseases, including measles, mumps, pertussis, polio, varicella, and influenza (CDC, 2009). According to Shot@Life, a United Nations partner program, vaccines stop around 2.5 million children from developing preventable diseases each year (ProCon.org,
Are you doing something wrong as a legal guardian to a child? Is there something that you could do to ensure the health and well being of your child? Well, the answer is simply get them vaccinated. One of the greatest health developments of the 20th century are vaccinations, they point out the illness that your child could potentially encounter. If you are a legal guardian to a child, you need to get your child vaccinated ASAP. By getting your child vaccinated, your not only protecting them from getting a serious life threatening illness, but you are protecting those around your child. Major medical organizations recommend that your child gets vaccinated as soon as they are eligible for certain vaccinations. By getting just a simple shot into your child's arm, you could help save your child's life.
Vaccination has been brought up again in recent years even when vaccines have been around for about one thousand years. However, with recent outbreaks of measles, some see as preventable disease through vaccines, the main controversy of vaccination has once again been brought up due to parents concerns of safety of their children. Parents now are wondering if vaccinations are the best thing for their children due to reports that vaccines cause autism and other brain disabilities. Although, the link between vaccines and autism has been discredited, the issue is still a hot topic throughout the safety of kids and refusal of vaccines. The link between autism and vaccines has caused a scare which lead to more parents refusing to vaccinate
I agreed , Vaccination as a preventive measure should be offered to everyone at not cost. Unfortunately, a citizen in order to have access to a health care service must have any kind of insurance that will cover essential benefits. Under the new healthcare law preventive medicine play a significant role so individual who acquired a plan are able to get vaccinations, screening test, and counseling, without paying a copay, coinsurance or a deductible, however not everyone will qualify for a health care plan and many citizens do not have access to the service. The Affordable Care Act is projecting to have more enrollment this year approximately 1.1 million more so 9 million of them will be old customers , 1 million of new customers that
Should people have a choice to send their children to death row or not? As a parent, choices made every day keep our children safe. Normally, a parent will not put their children in harm’s way; however, at times some parents threaten their children’s lives, and may not even know it. One of the easiest ways to protect a child against numerous life threatening, infectious diseases come in the form of infant vaccinations. Considering the infectious diseases abolished by vaccinations I remain unclear as to why anyone would choose against vaccinating their child, nevertheless, the choice to reject vaccination still remains. When making the choice to not vaccinate, additionally, makes the choice to put all children and everyone else around them at risk for infectious diseases. Please realize, even though the choice to vaccinate or not does exist, this choice should not weigh lightly. Infant vaccinations benefit not only
The introduction of vaccinations has been a controversial issue in both developed and developing nations around the world. Despite the benefits of immunizations, some parents refuse to vaccinate their children, which has caused healthcare providers to implement vaccination mandates and intense educational sessions. Is there a middle ground between ensuring the safety of children and preserving parental choice? How can we implement effective methods of communication between vaccine-hesitant parents and healthcare providers without imposing on freedom of choice? Ensuring transparency between vaccine-hesitant parents and health officials aided by resources dependent on a country’s socioeconomic factors can help promote the success of
Once said,”Don’t let your fear of what cou happen make nothing happen.”Is clearly What is occurring on thought of getting vaccinated. The fear is caused because what it could do to humans. People Afraid they're putting themselves or loved one at risk when they get vaccinated. The truth is, it is the other way around. Vaccines go through years of testing to justify their safety before going into the human body. Vaccines save lives and only have minor side effects that cause no real harm. The cheaper to pay to get vaccinated then to treat a disease. Although there are many stories or myths out on the internet that can prove this wrong, But if you do your research with trusted websites vaccinations are harmless and everyone should be vaccinated. vaccines will protect people and
Vaccines are safer than ever and widely considered one of the greatest medical achievements of modern civilization. Childhood diseases, that were once a major problem, are now rare due to vaccinations. Immunizations are effectively changing the United States in so many ways. This includes: protecting others you care about, saving families time and money, and protecting future generations to come. Some citizens are objecting to vaccinations because of minor symptoms when they should really be looking at all the benefits they bring to us. The diseases are much worse than the potential side effects from the vaccines. People might not realize just what vaccine preventable-diseases can do. For instance, measles is fever, rash, pneumonia, brain infection and the leading cause of childhood blindness in the world. Some parents who do not want to vaccinate want to avoid anything that’s not natural for their kids. Tara Smith, associate professor of epidemiology at Kent State University, states, “If you want to do something natural, vaccination is far more natural that if your child ends up on a ventilator or needing antibiotics or if they end up with a brain infection so if you are trying to balance what’s the most natural way to take care of your child, I would say measles vaccine is pretty high up there” (Wallace, 1). In order to prevent re-occurring outbreaks, citizens must continue to get their vaccinations and make sure their children
A wise Welsh man once said, “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.” But, can that also be said about immunizations? According to the Medilexicon medical dictionary, “an immunization is the action of making a person or animal immune to infection, typically by inoculation.” The Merriam-Webster Dictionary provides a more technical definition of immunizations by defining them as “the creation of immunity usually against a particular disease, treatment (as by vaccination) of an organism for the purpose of making it immune to a particular pathogen.” Most people feel that immunizations are a very important part of a health care regimen and should be mandatory for the majority of individuals. But over the past several years, questions have
Vaccines have always been a controversial topic, to whether they are required all the way down to what they are composed of. It has been an ongoing battle since the 1970s and continues to make headlines even in this year of 2015 with the measles outbreak from Disneyland. Even now, many still believe that vaccinations can cause autism and choose not to vaccinate their children for that reason or another. Vaccinations are critical and need to be required for children before entering public schools.
You and your significant other have just found out that you’re pregnant. You will carry the baby for 9 months and you will protect it with your own body, but what happens after birth? What kind of protection should you provide them with? The question is to vaccinate, or to not vaccinate? First off, let’s start with what a vaccine is. A vaccine is a substance that produces antibodies and provides immunity against one or many diseases. A vaccine is made up and prepared with the disease that causes it, its products, or a synthetic substitute. It’s treated to act like an antigen without producing the disease. So to simplify this, patients are injected
Getting your vaccinations plays an important if not more important role than diet and exercise. Even tho diet and exercise keep you healthy and free from disease,vaccines can help fight against colon and breast cancer and many other harmful diseases etc... A Lot of people wonder well what if i get this disease you can not get this disease, it contains a live weakened virus that your body fights and builds immunity to so if that virus is going around your immune system is familiar with it and fight it off and keep you going in your busy life. Vaccine preventable diseases can cost up to $10 billion dollars in indirect costs that can add up and be very expensive. An average flu shot costs no more than $20, whereas the influenza can last up to 15 days causing a family member to miss up to 6 days of work losing $960 average when they could have prevented
The Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the virus responsible for cervical cancer. It is one the most common viral sexually transmitted infections. A vaccine was approved in 2006 that is effective in preventing the types of HPV responsible for 70% of cervical cancers and 90% of genital warts. Proposals for routine and mandatory HPV vaccination of girls have become sources of controversy for parents of school-aged youth, legislators, members of the medical community, and the public at large (Cooper et al. 2010).
Vaccinations are one of the modern era’s most notable medical advances. They have shaped our society in ways that are easily forgotten, eradicating diseases that once posed a threat to the United States and protect the world against ruthless diseases that kill mass amounts of people. Vaccinations not only protect individuals, but also society as a whole and should be required for everyone attending school, regardless of philosophical or religious beliefs. The only exception for not receiving vaccinations should be given to those who would suffer more harm than good as a result, such as cancer patients, those with weakened immune systems, or those with allergies to the ingredients.