Immunizations

Immunizations

Should immunizations be mandatory for children?

Introduction

The basic principles of vaccination for working with imported vaccines are compliance with the "cold chain", i.e. delivery of vaccines from the manufacturer to the consumer at a certain temperature, the implementation of sanitary and hygienic standards, monitoring the state of post-vaccination, the presence of anti-shock laying the vaccination at home and in the medical facility, medical evaluation of the indications and contraindications in the choice of drugs for the vaccination.

Vaccination is the primary method of prophylactic prevention of dangerous infections, which allowed to eliminate smallpox, polio , tetanus, neonatal, and reduce the incidence of childhood infections such as measles , rubella , whooping cough, diphtheria , mumps. Children living in large metropolitan areas are at increased risk for contact with a variety of viral diseases and epidemic situations. In this regard, the immunization schedule introduced new combination of drugs that reduce the number of injections and allow protecting against dangerous infectious diseases and common diseases in children under 6 years old (World Health Organization).

Thesis Statement

The paper discusses whether or not immunizations are mandatory for children.

Vaccinations for Children

Calendar of vaccinations for children is individual for each country. In Russia, are mandatory vaccinations for children against nine infections: vaccination against tuberculosis (BCG) vaccination against diphtheria , polio vaccine , measles vaccine , vaccination against mumps, rubella vaccination , vaccination against tetanus , pertussis vaccine, and vaccination against hepatitis B . Vaccination starts in the maternity hospital for tuberculosis and hepatitis B and actively pursued in the first year of life. At 3 months of vaccination for children are doing against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio vaccinations and repeat this three times at intervals of 45 days. Revaccination is carried out in 18 months and up to 14 years. Live vaccines against measles, rubella and mumps begin to apply from 12 months. In modern conditions it is possible to make the combined vaccine, for example, combining DTP with hepatitis B (vaccine Bubo-Kok), the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella combined vaccine in the form of Priorix or MMR (Koenig, 2009).

Significance of Immunizations for Children

Compulsory vaccinations should be reimbursed by social security . Health authorities ensure that the risk / benefit ratio is sufficiently significant. Failure to comply vaccine exposes them to criminal or administrative sanctions, including withdrawal of parental authority, being withdrawn from school, returning an administration, to a fine or a custodial sentence. The vaccination requirement has led to the creation of groups of people opposed to its systematic nature, such as the National League for Freedom of vaccinations invoking the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union , which introduced a conscience clause.

Three vaccines are mandatory:

Vaccines against diphtheria , the tetanus and poliomyelitis : a primary vaccination with three injections at 2, 3 and 4 months, with a booster between 16 and 18 months. Against the polio two additional reminders, and 6 years, and between 11 and 13 years.

These three vaccines are traditionally administered simultaneously in early ...