Essays on Vaccinating

Ontario’s HPV Vaccination Program

In this paper, I present arguments that are supportive of the ethical inappropriateness of the Ontario government’s HPV vaccination initiative. I also aim at revealing the ineffectiveness of the program as a public health strategy constructed to combat cervical cancer. In addition, I will use the utilitarian approach to support my views.

The Ontario HPV Program Overview

In September 2007, the Ontario Liberal Government began a Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination intervention for female eighth-graders (Thompson, 2013; CIHR- IPPH, 2012). The federal government made an allocation of $ 300 million towards the intervention. Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, targets four subtypes of the virus. These ...

Phase 3 – Behavioral and Environmental Diagnosis of Vaccinating Children

Vaccination among children is one of the most controversial issues in health care. There are both behavioral and environmental reasons in relation to parents’ decision to accept or decline the vaccination for their children. Using the phase three of precede-proceed model, this portion will provide further ecological assessment that will analyze such determinants of the parents’ decisions as well as the present policy factors that affects the implementation of vaccination for children. The emergence of different viruses call for the implementation of policies that will promote the vaccination of children ages between 1 and 5 years old. However, there ...

Vaccination is an important decision that parents need to make when their children are young. There are many opposing statements regarding this choice, and many voices favor vaccination as well. Vaccination came into being in the 19th century when Louis Pasteur first discovered the rabies vaccines and then on, rigorous research went into the study of immunology and protecting people from falling ill to life-threatening diseases. After the course of diseases was understood, scientists worked on making preventative measures for avoidance of these diseases. Vaccines have led to a great drop in the mortality rate over the past century ...

Introduction

Every year, more than ten million children from low- and middle-income countries die before reaching the age of five years. Most of these children die because they cannot access effective interventions to combat preventable childhood diseases. In most parts of the developed world, immunization programs have been remarkably successful, managing to eliminate virtually diseases such as polio and measles in most parts. Experts, however, have registered worries for countries that may not be able to afford such vaccines even at the basic level. Such weaknesses may allow outbreaks of diseases even though vaccines are readily available. This paper provides ...

Abstract

The ethical issue of vaccination in the United States has become a controversial one of late, despite its status as a long-standing medical practice borne of practical results and rigorous scientific study. However, recent years have seen a rise in the anti-vaccination movement, cultivated chiefly through the Internet and popular cultural figures advocating for vaccine refusal. When viewing and examining this issue from a utilitarian perspective, it becomes clear that compulsory vaccination remains a moral and ethical imperative, regardless of the controversy that has surrounded it. The ethical issue of vaccination in the United States has become a controversial one of late, despite its ...

The Bubonic Plague was arguably one of the most historically tragic and monumental times in human history. It managed to change everything we understand about ourselves physically while changing the social and cultural landscape around it. An upheaval of power followed the plague, as did a religious revolt. Ironically, an issue today that is causing many social and cultural changes centers around something meant to keep the plague, and many other deadly diseases, from reemerging: vaccinations. In the wake of falsified research that left the world believing vaccinations caused autism, some parents still believe vaccinations are bad. This belief is ...

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Introduction Since the smallpox vaccination was invented, there has been excessive debate and controversy regarding morality, effectiveness, ethics and safety of these immunizations that the doctor recommend that early vaccinations should start from the time of child’s birth. Much argument has been placed whether a law should be passed by government to provide some or all of the important vaccinations as compulsory for children. Although vaccinations have proven to be an efficient way of preventing dangerous effects, it should still be the parents’ decision to get their child ...

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Should it be enforced? Introduction In 1963, measles virus affected over three million families in the United States. The virus killed over 500 people and infected over 48000. When the vaccination for measles was first introduced, the outbreak dropped considerably to the point that measles was virtually eliminated on a global scale. However, during the recent years, a surge in measles outbreak has been observed across the states of Indiana and New York City. . The medical community is scrambling to take precautionary measures to reduce the epidemic, through vaccinations. This raises an important question: Should ...

Despite the healthy benefits of inoculating children, parents still ask, “Is this right for my baby?” Since the heightened rate of autism among children, many parents have wondered if vaccines are to blame. Out of fear or the thought of saving their children, parents skip vaccines that protect children from harmful diseases such as tuberculosis, measles, mumps, and several others. Other parents simply believe that vaccines are unnatural and that if the child eats clean and lives healthy their body will naturally resist these diseases. This is all, of course, preposterous. Scientifically speaking, no amount of clean eating can ...

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Introduction On June 3 2013 New Jersey Senate’s Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens committee vice chair Senator Fred H. Madden and Senator Madden introduced the Bill S2832; an Act concerning the pertussis vaccine and supplementing. The bill proposes that birthing facilities and hospitals make available information on pertussis vaccines for adults to new mothers. The bill serves as a cautionary measure against the infection of infants by pertussis through transmission from adults in their immediate environment. Pertussis, also called whooping cough, is a respiratory infection caused by a bacteria Bordetella pertussis and it is highly contagious. It is ...

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Introduction The vaccine-autism controversy came into limelight in 1998 after a UK-based gastroenterologist Dr. Andrew Wakefield published a paper linking the MMR vaccine to autism using inappropriate and false research techniques (Gerber & Offit, 2009). The theory was later disproved. Yet, some parents still felt that the reason for their child having autism was vaccine. This is primarily because the human mind is inclined towards reasoning, questioning and pattern perception. As Chabris and Simons point out in their book, this very drive for stamping on reasons for every occurrence and coincidence leads to the Illusion of cause theory (2010). According to ...

1. Scenario One: A medical assistant is working at a Catholic hospital but does not practice this religion. The Catholic hospital does not believe in the practice of performing tubal ligation procedures as birth control. The medical assistant has a patient who is 23 years old and currently has 5 children. She is requesting assistance in having this procedure done. The policy of this hospital is not to discuss any forms of birth control with patients. What should the medical assistant do since she does not believe in this policy?

Scenario One Commentary

Catholic hospitals are governed by Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic ...

The risks of vaccines and their association with autism remain a continuing debate between doctors, pharmaceutical companies, parents, and health advocates. The debate is often passionate and led by emotion; celebrities Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey providing a vocal campaign against vaccination because of vaccines’ alleged link to autism (Adams). The argument that vaccines are linked to autism generally includes the idea that it is the preservatives in vaccinations that is the link between this product and the debilitating disorder. The issue is complex and there is no simple answer. A 2005 article in NaturalNews discusses the toxicity of the ...

The controversy over vaccination of children has been flaring up from last decade and parents are refuting medical advice regarding vaccination of children. Medical community and concerned parents are segregated in two groups, both attempting to assert their viewpoint over vaccinations. The scientific data and results on the efficacy and requirement of vaccination for children provided and informed by medical consultants to parents is not accorded complete comprehension by parents and the number of parents who are willing to skip their child’s vaccination is on the increase. Children, during their early life stage are prone to diseases resulting ...