Should parents avoid vaccinating their children?

1. David A Hammer/COLL498

2. • To determine the effect if vaccines are drugs
that contribute to the creation of active specific
immunity acquired during the process of vaccinating
and necessary to protect the body against a specific
pathogen.

3. • Vaccines can be used to treat certain infectious
diseases.
• Vaccines are produced by complex biochemical
processes of microorganisms, their metabolic
products or individual components of microbial
cells.
• Limited research has shown a knowledge deficit
about vaccines.

4. • Vaccines against life-debilitating diseases are
one of the best general wellbeing
accomplishments ever.
• Vaccines convey unavoidable dangers, the
therapeutic, social and monetary profits they
present have driven every one of the fifty states to
authorize obligatory adolescence vaccine laws to
stop the spread of preventable sicknesses.
Vaccines

5. • A large number of unexpected losses have
been forestalled, and innumerable children have
been spared from deforming ailments due to
vaccines.
• Anti-vaccination assumption is developing quickly
in the United States, in huge part because of the
questionable and connections in the link between
vaccines and autism (CDC).
Vaccines

6. • Vaccination (immunization) - creation of artificial
immunity to certain diseases.
• For this purpose, there are relatively harmless
antigens (protein molecule), which are part of the
microorganisms that cause disease.
• Microorganisms can be viruses, such as measles,
or bacteria.
 Immunity to Certain Diseases

7. • Vaccination is one of the best means to protect
children against infectious diseases that cause
serious disease that can possibly appear before
vaccination.
• Unjustified criticism of vaccination in the press
was caused by the desire to inflate sensations of
individual cases that are connected with
complications after vaccinating.
 Immunity to Certain Diseases

8. • The media tells us about deaths of children due to
vaccinations.
• The World Wide Web compounds reasons for alarm in
regards to immunization security and disturbing data
about the dangers of immunizations.
• Almost all states permit vaccine exclusions for
religious reasons and developing number give
“philosophical” select outs also.
 Vaccinations useful or harmful?

9. • Are vaccines necessary?
• Do certain vaccines only affect certain cultures,
genetics, or physical inactivity?
• What are the typical stereotypes and the negative
health consequences associated with being
vaccinated?
• At what age do vaccinations have the greatest
impacts?
• What is the media doing to help prevent this stigma of
being vaccinated?
 Vaccinations useful or harmful?

10. • Scientific data proves conclusively that in general the
vaccination brings more good than harm. Among children
who do not have contraindications, severe side effects are
rare, so the recommended vaccination is much less risky.
However, before going to the vaccination room it is best to
consult with a doctor about possible contraindications and
the need for a vaccine in each case.
 Claims

11. • Currently, there are four different types of
vaccines that contain attenuated live
microorganisms, for example, polio vaccine,
measles, mumps and rubella. Some vaccines
contain dead microorganisms, such as whooping
cough vaccine.
 Immunity to Certain Diseases

12. • Other vaccines contain toxins that are produced
by a bacterium or virus. For example, diphtheria
and tetanus vaccine are toxoids. The biosynthetic
vaccines cause no reaction of the immune
system, such as hepatitis vaccine B,
Haemophilus influenzae.
 Immunity to Certain Diseases

13. • Reducing the number of diseases is associated
with increased overall quality of life and medicine
has nothing to do with vaccinations. This is one of
the most common statements and opinions about
vaccination. It is certainly true, but only partly.
Indeed, raising the overall standard of living, the
emergence of new treatments and antibiotics also
contribute to reducing the number of infectious
diseases.
 Perceptions and Preventive Behaviors

14. • Is it worth the risk of a child's life for the sake of
"natural" life-long immunity? After measles
mortality was 0.1%, diphtheria - is 5-10%, and in
young children - about 20%. Such a game with
life is more dangerous than Russian roulette with
one bullet in the revolver! The decision, of course,
belongs to the parents.
 Lifetime Insurance

15. • According to some advocates of human rights, forced
compulsory vaccination is contrary to the freedom of choice.
The most powerful "legal" movement against mandatory
vaccines, of course, exists in the United States - the world's
bastion of human rights and freedoms. For example,
California has legalized refusal of vaccination, if the parents
do not want it. Their opponents are willing to oppose them
with good arguments in favor of mandatory vaccinations:
unvaccinated person is a danger to the health of others,
thereby already infringing their rights.
 Ethical Problem

16. • It is clear that in order to prevent any epidemic a large
proportion of the population should be vaccinated. If
coverage is insufficient, there is a risk of getting there even
in vaccinated children vaccines do not provide 100 percent
resistance to disease.
 Ethical Problem

17. • There are no scientific studies that determine whether the
vaccine prevents diseases. Charts of morbidity rather show
that vaccinations were administered at the end of the
epidemic, when the disease was already at the final stage.
 Paradox: A single person cannot be
vaccinated if everybody is vaccinated and
cannot infect him

18. • There are documented cases of death from vaccination.
Unfortunately, it is true. Any medicine and vaccines include
their side effects. Sometimes, in very rare cases, they can
lead to the death of a child. And it is terrible. However,
cases of death are extremely rare and they often occur due
to an oversight. The risk is always present. Statistics show
that the refusal of vaccination carries a much greater risk of
death from infectious diseases at an early age than the risk
of dying from vaccination.
 Find a safe Analogue

19. • Parents can have positive effects on public health as
they learn accurate information through education.
• Vaccination status pre- and post-programs.
• The future of immunization depends on the accomplishment
of medicinal exploration for immunizations that are easier to
control.
• Vaccines will require a strong logical base partnered with
the utilizing of developing and empowering innovations.
 Vaccine Knowledge

20. • In order to try to avoid risks (or at least minimize them) a
person should learn about the side effects of a particular
vaccine. A person should not forget to monitor the health of
the child. The parents should strengthen the immune
system of children, harden it by example of a healthy
lifestyle and everything will be fine.
• In fact, there is a risk of death from vaccination. But, if a
person does not get vaccinations - risk of death from
infectious disease is much more.
 Vaccine Remediation

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