The vaccination programme is only temporary to deal with the heightened risk of whooping cough infection during this outbreak. A similar programme is already under way for pregnant women in the US, although the evidence for its effectiveness is still unclear. Dr Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at the Health Protection Agency (HPA), welcomed the measure. "We have been very concerned about the continuing increase in whooping cough cases and related deaths. "It's also important we continue to remind all parents to ensure their children are vaccinated against whooping cough to continue their protection through
Though controversial to some and beneficial to others, the HPV vaccine is a new innovation that I believe all teenage girls should receive. Regardless of religious backgrounds, traditions or upbringings, sexual intercourse is something that nearly all humans will instinctively engage in at some point in their lives. With the increasing outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases in today’s society, any form of prevention for any sort of STD should be shone under a positive light. The HPV vaccine is a vaccination designed to prevent the contraction of HPV (Human papillomavirus). HPV is estimated to be one of the most common sexually transmitted infections in Canada and around the world.
Risk of dying depends on what type of cancer is present. It can be very treatable, or the patient who tests positive for having the mutation might never develop the cancer. 4.How do heredity and inheritance relate to the data presented in these charts? So most cases of breast cancer occur after the woman has had children, so the gene, if it is present, is passed on to her children before she knows she knows that she has cancer, she might also be a carrier - spreading the mutation, but she herself is not affected. 5.What data would you need to see in order to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of preventive surgeries?
In this present day many nurses have indeed contributed to modern medicine like Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it available to woman in the 1800s although she faced many challenges she did not give up until it was legalised and women had access to birth control. This has made life much easier for women nowadays to plan they futures before having children and preventing children been born with diseasesand unwanted pregnancies can be avoided instead of having abortions. People may not agree with the way Margaret went about it and may say she was racist but all races today use birth control pills. Margaret Sanger was born in 1879 in Corning, New York.
How can people prevent HPV Z. Vaccines for males and females xxxiv. Girls and woman: two vaccines 12. Cervarix: protects against the HPV that causes cervical cancer 13. Gardasil: protects against most genital warts 14.
According to the Canadian Medical Association only 1 out of 100 women under the age of 40 learns she has breast cancer (Heisey, Ruth, McCready, David). But over the course of her lifetime 1 in 8 women will contract the disease. As women we have learned to fear the worst. Breast cancer touches many of our lives but every lump doesn’t mean a death sentence. There may be benign reasons for breast lumps such as hormonal changes, the breast tissue itself, and cysts.
The Gardasil Vaccine Human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer are two of the most problematic health issues that young women have to deal with today. There are many different risks of getting these two diseases, which can be easily deducted by the use of a simple set of three shots of the Gardasil vaccine. Noel Merino, the author of the article “A Mandatory HPV Vaccine Will Create a Backlash”, believes that these shots should not be mandatory. He strongly states the reasons as to why there is not a big rush to get the vaccination for multiple reasons. While Merino clearly identifies that HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer, he ignores the fact that the decision to give girls as young as ten the Gardasil shot vaccine, is not
The experience of pregnancy and the feeling of postpartum life are unique for every woman. The culture is showing that becoming a mother of a baby is the happiest time in a woman’s life. Every woman should know and understand what is prenatal mental health. The society should provide the support and information to all the pregnant women. “Women were afraid of two things: to die during childbirth and that something should happen to the baby during childbirth.
Most people agree with keeping abortions leagalized during the first trimester because of the health of the mother or the health of the unborn child (Saad 1). There are many personal reasons women choose to have abortions as well, like in cases of rape. Hillary Clinton cites in her speech on the "politics and moralitly of abortion" that there are 15,000 abortions per year due to women that have been sexually assaulted (Sullivan 2). If a women is raped she should not have to go through the mental stress of having that
The young girl went on to explain how practicing safe sex will help lower the rate of STDs and prevent unwanted pregnancies. Knox faced many discouragements from the school officials, however her primary goal remained the same and that was to reach the teens about practicing safe sex. “We decided sex education was going to be our issue because we all knew somebody who had been touched by the high rates of STDs and teen pregnancy (873)” This is why I chose this topic because everybody can relate to this subject. I’ve known people who have had life changing experiences so young, while in high school my cousin became pregnant; I had numerous friends who had been touched by the high rates of STDs, and others who have had many abortions due to the lack of comprehensive sex education. “I think that God wants you to question, “Knox said.