The vaccine is the first of its kind to build immunity against two strains of HPV, which lead to 70% of cervical cancer cases in the United States. Merck was on a roll until parents, who were being threatened with state mandates forcing their little girls to get three doses started. Gardasil vaccine is perhaps one of the most controversial vaccines to date. (Lopes) Let’s not forget that Merck is the same company that brought us Vioxx, and knew or should
Vaccination Important For Our Children Shinumol Sabu DENG102: English Composition I Tracey Mastrape 11/16/2013 Causal Essay “Most anti-vaccine books claim that all shots are bad, that diseases aren't really anything to fear, and as long as you live a natural and healthy lifestyle, you don't have to worry. I think this is a very irresponsible approach to the vaccine issue. Vaccines are beneficial in ridding our population of both serious and non-serious diseases.”(Robert W. Sears).Nothing is more tragic than a baby or young child dying from a disease that could have been prevented from a simple vaccine. Vaccinations save lives. Diseases kill or disable young healthy lives and older adults whose immune system is breaking down.
It has been said by some medical professionals that between the ages of nine (9) – fourteen (14), all young females be given the HPV vaccination to prevent the spread of the infection at an early stage. In recent times. there has been a controversy with the HPV vaccine and whether it should be administered to young girls in the nation's primary schools. Most of the controversy over this vaccine comes from the fact that some religious beliefs think that it will promote sexual promiscuity. Cervical cancer kills 4,000 women each year in the U.S. 90% of the cases of cervical cancer are attributable to the HPV virus.
Measles is not the only disease that's shown up in recent years as a result of people choosing not to be vaccinated. In 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established almost 50,000 cases of whooping cough across the country, this is the largest outbreak in since 1955. Counter arguments will include: Herd immunity, or indirect protection says that the risk of infection among susceptible individuals in a population is reduced by the presence and proximity of immune individuals. (Fine, Eames, & Heymann, 2011) In 1998, researcher Andrew Wakefield published a study
Peaking in January and February, Respiratory syncytial virus is the virus causing most common colds, when it is limited to the upper respiratory tract. Unfortunately when the virus aggravates the lower respiratory tract, complications occur, including respiratory distress, pneumonia, bronchiolitis and possibility the development of asthma. Pruitt also states that each year 125,000 children (mostly under 6 months of age) require hospitalization, and of these, about 2,500 die (Pruitt 63). Beyond this age, by about two years old, children have been exposed to RSV and have developed and immunity. If diagnosis of this infection is made through cultures of respiratory secretions, treatment begins immediately.
The Food and Drug Administration which, would be on the national level discusses in the early twenty-first century, The United States started facing a health epidemic that possibly could be catastrophe to the health of comminutes nationwide (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2009). Americans are ingesting too much food and not exercising causing many American’s to be overweight or obese. The United States has123 million overweight or obese Americans with 15% being children (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2009). South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in agreement with the FDA that the citizens of the United States are becoming more and more obese and there needs to be a solution. All there levels of government have developed a strategy plan to combat obesity and function as a map to defeating the epidemic of obesity.
This act required all states to raise their legal age to twenty one; if they refused, their annual federal highway dollars would be cut by ten percent. This act was backed by Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD). According to MADD the drinking age of twenty one has saved some seventeen thousand lives since 1988. (Daniloff) One of the main groups leading the charge to have the legal age lowered is college presidents all over the United States. In 2007 former Middlebury College President John McCardell founded Choose Responsibility (CR).
The second writing technique that the author uses is historical. When it comes to talk about history that polio creates, it is important to mention historic facts. For example, in the Unites States, polio struck down nearly 58,000 children in 1952 alone (paragraph 30). Also, in 1961, thirty years after Albert Sabin began studying polio; his oral vaccine was introduced in the Unites States and distributed widely. In the nearly forty years since, polio has been eradicated in the western Hemisphere, The World Health Organization reported, adding that with a full scale effort, polio could be eliminated from the rest of the world by the
According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America website, Asthma I the inflammation of the air passages resulting in the temporary narrowing of the airways that transport air from the nose and mouth to the lungs. Need Step: There is no cure for asthma, only management through treatment. As stated by the AAFA’s website, and estimated 20 million people suffer from asthma. That is about the population of New York. And out of that 20 million, 4000 of them die each year from asthma.
Introduction This assignment will discuss how smoking cessation may be promoted in a hospital setting focusing on nurses’ interventions utilising Beatties health promotion model and referring to relevant health promotion approachs. It will identify opportunities and challenges to health promotion and include relevant literature and research. “In Ireland, 29% of the adult population are current smokers” HSE(2010). Smoking is the leading cause of preventable illness, disability and death in Ireland Asthma Society of Ireland (2010). Smoking is estimated to be the cause of approximately 7,000 deaths in Ireland each year, chiefly by illnesses such as lung cancer, heart disease, stroke and emphysema Department of Health and Children (2010).