3.2.4 Provision of integrated services. Provision of integrated services was noted as innovative. A situation analysis is done before conducting the integrated services to find out who are they, where are they located and why are not being immunized or being missed. The next step is the integration immunization services with other programmes such as, Malaria (Insecticide Treated Nets) Vitamin A and plump nuts provision to increasing coverage , access and demand for immunization services with more focusing on rural remote areas , urban slums and hard to reach areas . 3.2.5 Utilization of community health worker and non health personnel. Utilization of community health worker and non health personnel (influential person in the community) was noted as innovative. In Burkina Faso, community health worker and community representatives, maintain lists of women and children who need immunizations, conduct house-to-house visits to identify eligible children and refer them to the nearest health centre or outreach session. Likewise, non health personnel are used to mobilize communities for immunization. The non health personnel are also incorporated at health centre level with the establishment of village health committee and Health Centre Management Committee (Comate de Gestion du Centre de Santé). The non health workers are the champions of immunization services and other health services in their own communities. They are used to identify children who are not immunised and this enhances community participation in health services with a goal of complete coverage of immunization services. 3.2.6. Involvement of political and religious’ leaders. Involvement of political leaders and religious leaders was one of the innovativ... ... middle of paper ... ...nt donor funded. The issue of future financing of the immunization programme was, and still is, an increasing concern for all the stakeholders involved in the EPI (Eie, 2008). The donor dependency has an impact on the introduction of new vaccines such as Hepatitis B which is found to be relatively expensive compared to the basic antigens, suggesting that their introduction needs to be carefully planned, and options such as phasing in by regions or targeted populations should be considered. MDG-4 will be missed unless the local resource of funding are tapped and mobilized It is also important to consider whether introducing a new vaccine will not adversely affect the use of the six traditional EPI antigens.( Ministere de la santé Côte d’Ivoire 2007°). In Benin, Burkina Faso and Côte d’ivoire political will is need to defeat child mortality (Richard 2006). CH
Palfreman, J. (Director) (2010). The vaccine war [Television series episode]. In Fanning, D. (Executive Producer),FRONTLINE. PBS. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/view/
The authors used a historical timeline to introduce a need. Stressing the number of lives lost allows the authors show the importance of vaccines. The repeated emphasis on those lives being the lives of children played on the emotions of readers. Once the need is established Lee and Carson-Dewitt clarify the use of “a dead or mild form of a virus” to create a vaccine (Lee, Carson-Dewitt, 2016, p.2). The distinction of the types of
Health care policies are put into place regarding childhood immunization requirements for schools, along with information on obtaining religious exemptions. Each state and/or country develops their own individualized guidelines through interactions with federal and state government agencies. One in five babies around the world are missing out on basic vaccines and may die from weak health systems and insufficient funding. UNICEF and its partners are working to change these numbers and ensure that all children are successfully protected with vaccines.
... a service which can help individuals and communities maintain optimum health. Immunisations are important in preventing communicable disease and health visitors are the key professionals in ensuring that families are aware of the seriousness of disease as well as the safety of immunisations. One way of ensuring that children receive immunisations would be to make them compulsory however this would mean that freedom of choice is removed and health visitors would need to police the public to ensure that they are attending appointments. In reality it would not be ethical to develop a law for immunisations therefore health promotion is the most efficient way to encourage parents to get their child vaccinated. With time the immunisation programme will grow as more diseases need to be prevented making the health visitors role in promoting them become even more important.
Each day researchers are finding out about vaccines and are realizing that there are a lot more risks than benefits. Dr Phillip F. Incao explains: “Today, far more children suffer from allergies and other chronic immune system disorders than from life-threatening infectious disease. It is neither reasonable nor prudent to persist in presuming that the benefits of any vaccination outweigh its risk” (qtd in Spaker). While infectious diseases are becoming uncommon there is no need for any person to get vaccinated. There have been many issues surrounding vaccinations all around the world.
18. Salmon, Daniel A. and Saad B. Omer, ‘Individual freedoms versus collective responsibility:immunization decision-making in the face of occasionally competing values’, Emerging Themes Epid, 3 (2006):
Health status of an individual is influenced by the person himself his environment. Community based programs will make health education available outside traditional health care setting which is able to influence various units of the community including an individual , family or the community as a whole. An educational program organized in a community based setting such as school, worksite, health care facilities and the community it...
By 2006, vaccines for Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR), Hepatitis A and B, Chickenpox, and Hib were created and licensed. Vaccinations for these diseases, as they were created, would be required of students enrolled in school (“Government”). Today, the most common vaccines required by
Holding children’s hands while crossing the road, buckling them up in the car, and teaching them to stay away from strangers, are all important when it comes to child safety. But what about vaccinations? It is necessary that each child be properly vaccinated for many reasons, but most importantly for their health and well-being. With the help of vaccinations, many diseases have been eradicated and many lives have been saved. If parents do not properly vaccinate their children, health issues and other complications will arise for everyone, leading to a higher disease and death rate worldwide.
A community can be defined as a group of people, who live, learn, work and play in an environment at a given time. (Yiu, 2012, p.213) There are many factors that may influence the community’s development and health status. These can include resources available, accessibility, transportation, safety, community needs etc… These influences may combine together to form community strengths and as well as community challenges or weaknesses. As a community health care nurse, it is significant for us to assess and identify these strengths and challenges within the community in order for us to intervene and provide the appropriate needed health care services for the community members. This individual scholarly paper will explore and focus on one challenge issue identified from our group community assessment.
Director National Immunization Program in a letter to the UK’s Chief Medical Officer 15 February 2002.
Wiesel, E. (2004). Disease prevention through immunization: Beginning of health care reform. S.l.: Diane Pub Co.
The CDC works closely with public health agencies and private partners in order to improve and sustain immunization coverage and to monitor the safety of vaccines so that public ...
Management at The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) must have a strategic plan which serves as the framework to build “A World Fit for Children.”(UNICEF [UNICEF], 1998) To plan strategically management must take into account UNCEF vision and mission and there strengths, weakness and threats to accomplish their goals.(World Health Organization [WHO], 2003, 1) An example of this is UNICEF working with all those who share their commitment to the rights of every child. Organizations such as World Health Organization (WHO) who have been working with UNICEF on a strategy to fight vaccine-preventable diseases called The Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS) goal is to fight vaccine-preventable diseases, which kill more than two million people every year, two thirds of those killed are children. WHO and UNICEF will assist governments in designing, financing and implementing national immunization programs while also taking into account ethics involving culture and religious beliefs of those who do not believe in immunizations.
According to World Book Advanced Encyclopedia, immunization is defined as the process of protecting the body against disease by means of vaccines or serums (Hinman). While medical science backs up the efficiency and necessity of vaccines, within the past decade, a rise in parents disbelieving the medical community and neglecting to immunize their children has occurred. This “fear of vaccines” is nothing new, but with the ever-increasing safety of vaccines, the benefits of inoculation far outweigh the risks. Parents who refuse to vaccinate, or anti-vaxxers, put more than their children’s lives on the line, but also risk the safety of the whole community. Because vaccines are essential to protecting individuals and communities