Some parents are refraining from giving certain immunizations to their children. How will this affect diseases in the United States in the future? How as medical professionals can we embrace these nontraditional practices?
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As we are facing a global dilemma of combatting Covid-19, we can’t deny how immunization helped in declining cases in countries that effectively promote vaccination drives. Setting countries such as South Korea, Japan and Singapore as an example, their respective government effort to inoculate their citizen with Covid-19 jab, helped in seeing decline from the number of cases they used to have. It is also evident that those who received the vaccine are least likely to developed severe covid-19. This scenario is not only evident nowadays, but it is well proven by centuries of adapting the science of introducing a weakened virus or microorganism and introduce it to a host immune system in order to prepare the body to combat such infection when the time comes. Because of how we adapted and accepted the effectivity of these vaccines, we were able to control or totally eradicate certain diseases. Small pox vaccine is proof of how vaccine helps. Measles, pertusis, anti-tetanus, anti-rabies vaccines are just some of currently used vaccines that changes the life of countless people whom, without it, may have loss their lives.
Considering despite all of these, there are still some parents who choose to refrain their children from receiving certain vaccine, we can expect that sooner or later we will face a recurrence of well controlled disease such as measles and polio. How this will affect diseases in the United states strongly depends on what disease will benefit from this lapse. Children most of the time, spend their time in school. The four corners of their classroom that are oftentimes air-conditioned, is an effective medium to spread diseases. Tuberculosis, considering it being air borne, can easily spread from one pupil to another. As these children return to their respective home, they can spread the disease they carry to those who lives with them, and the cycle goes until an outbreak is identified. Because of this, the government will once again have to spend resources to deal with an outbreak and it will be expensive. Rather than having the chance to control such problem from happening through vaccination, the path the government will be taking is reactive to the situation. This is all due to parents who can’t see the benefit of vaccines. A cascade of problem can happen because of one wrong step and we are currently witnessing how a disease can greatly alter our lives.
Health professionals have to face such problem everyday. There are even health care workers who doubt the effectivity of vaccine. Despite the differences that we have to face as we carry our duty, we have to remember the core of our profession. It is to promote health holistically. We have to realize that it is our duty to promote health in every way possible. One of which is to introduce vaccines through health teaching. Though it is the right of the parents to choose what medications we can put into their children, it is also our right to educate them with information that can help them make a sane decision. It is also our responsibility to spread facts that might include the risk of receiving vaccine, but more so, the benefit from receiving one. It all boils down to the fact that we have to advocate vaccinations because we are knowledgeable enough to inform the public of its benefit. We can embrace this non traditional practices by respecting what they deemed as right. Still, we have to perform our duty to enable the parents to commit to their decision of whether or not to allow their children to receive vaccines, after having facts laid on their table. Health professionals must also work in harmony with the government in order to prevent outbreak from happening, this include extensive monitoring of cases, the use of effective quarantine when cases were identified, and placing the parents responsible if, when their child is infected, they have to shoulder all medical expenses. We have to respect their decision, but they have to take responsibility for their actions. It is our job to promote health, and as a parent, it is their job to keep their children healthy.