Child immunization is aimed at safeguarding children against grave diseases. It can either be active in which case a pathogen is administered to the child or passive where blood is administered from an already infected person to the person currently exposed to the malady both bound to improve the immunity of the child. Nurses work it out to ensure that parents become aware of the importance of immunization (Edelman, Mandle, & Kudzma, 2014, p. 1243). However, there are health concerns about the safety of the vaccines.
Dissenters quarrel that compulsory immunizations trespass upon their rights and religion. These disagreements have ended up in disease outbreaks as many people have declined vaccination. In other cases, vaccines are said to contain chemicals that bring about disorders like autism. Administering too many vaccines to a child makes the immune system of a child weak hence leads to untimely effects like autism. Consequently, homeopaths oppose immunization and have come up with vaccines which don’t have active ingredients thus do not brace the immunity of the child. To add to that, companies stopped making vaccines as they claimed the income was low.
These issues make some people in the community to avoid immunizing their children. Failure to immunize a child will increase the mortality rate of children at a lower age or increase the risk of spread among the weaker people like the old or those who were immunized but the immunization wasn’t effectual thus increasing deaths. When a child is surrounded by vaccinated children the chances of contracting the disease is very low as compared to a child surrounded by unvaccinated children. In such a case, the chances of a disease outbreak are very high and may lead to many deaths if the disease is fatal.
References
Edelman, C., Mandle, C. L., & Kudzma, E. C. (2014). Health promotion throughout the life span (8th Ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.
(Edelman, Mandle, & Kudzma, 2014).
