Immunizations are a process that stimulates the body's immune system to defend against attack by a particular contagious disease Berger (2009). Immunizations are very important, they protect children from diseases and serious complications. Immunizations are meaningful to me not only because I have small children that recieve immunizations but it is my job to make sure every parent has their health inventory form(immunization form) done before their child can come to our school. There are so many parents that think it is okay that my child is not up to date with his or her shots and thinks that the school should be okay with that also. I have to be the one to tell them that it's not okay and in order for your child to attend at our school they must have thier immunizations up to date.
I noticed in our reading that Afghanistan has one of the highest numbers of death of children under that age of 5. I found out from an article that in 2006 there was a immunization campaign done in Afghanistan supported by UNICEF. Their objective was to reduce child measles mortality by 90 percent and to elimnate maternal and neonatal tetanus. Afghanistan's infant mortality rate is very high at 257 per 1,000 live birth. Measles is a major cause of child death , and tetanus which results from unsanitary conditions at delivery, these are leading killers of mothers and their babies. In 2006 during this campaign more than 4 million children under 5 were vaccinated against measles and an estimate 4.2 million of childbearing age recieved tetanus vaccines. Mothers who were vaccinated passed tetanus immunity on to their children for the first nine months of life. This campaign helped but more help is still need.
I found that non-immunization of child may impact my future work. Someday I do want to own my own center and I must be firm with parents that their children must be up to date with immunizations.
*This assignment was completed in my previous course.
Hi Jamie,
ReplyDeleteI did some research on immunizations too and I was amazed at how many deaths can be prevented just from vaccinating! It's so sad to see that many of children's deaths in developing countries may have been prevented if certain immunizations were available. I think it's great that there are campaigns and programs that recognize this and are working to help children in developing areas receive immunizations for little or no cost. Thanks for sharing the information you found!
Jamie,
ReplyDeleteI also did a post on immunizations! It is amazing how much we take for granted in this country and the fact that some parents dont believe in immunizations for the protection of their children on certain illnesses. I really enjoyed reading your post.