MANDATORY CHILDHOOD VACCINATION

Mandatory Childhood Vaccination

Mandatory Childhood Vaccination

Introduction

Mandatory immunization vaccines mean prescribed by the Public Health Act Which must be administered to any child who enters school for the first time. Vaccination series means vaccines require more than one dose to confer immunity. Children receive at different ages, different vaccines that protect against some diseases. Diseases preventable by a vaccine mean that diseases can be prevented through immunization. Currently, protection against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus and polio is required. The Department of Education supports the objectives of mandatory immunization, which are to minimize the risk of developing disease can be prevented by a vaccine and to ensure that students are protected in the event of the occurrence such a disease. The Department of Education recognizes the importance of informing parents about immunization requirements for admission to the school (Hein, 1994).

Discussion

The ultimate goal of systematic immunization policy is the eradication of diseases, the objective is to prevent immediate or individual group of diseases. Each country has established a timetable vaccination which specifies the type of mandatory vaccines, doses and age they should be administered. Infectious diseases, by definition, are easily spread. However, viruses and bacteria can fight them if most people are vaccinated. Immunizations are the intervention profitable in terms of cost-effectiveness child health. It is without doubt the vaccination, of the greatest advances in public health the world. The objectives are to determine the immunization state of primary student's level of the four primary schools city of Corrientes and quantify compliance of vaccination by age and sex.

Immunization protects the entire community. Infectious diseases, by definition, are easily spread. However, the virus and bacteria they may be blocking the way if most people are vaccinated. The more children are vaccinated against certain disease, the greater the security community. The disease may recur when the degree of immunization drops. The vaccines are effective. In addition to facilitate tar water, no other intervention is as effective as vaccination to reduce the rates of disease and mortality. Vaccines are available to all. Se- cording to the World Bank today, the vaccination and vitamin A supplementation is two of interventions more affordable and profitable within the public health. Lack of vitamin A can cause irreversible blindness (Rota, 2001).

The more children are vaccinated at a community, the lower the probability of they get sick (even those not been vaccinated) as there are fewer receptors infectious agents. This type of vaccination is called collective and is especially effective with disease extremely contagious as the measles, where vaccination of 90 to 95% of young children is necessary to protect to the community. However, this is not effective diseases such as tetanus, so it is important that a vaccine is administered individual national, rather than practicing a vaccination group.

General Considerations

Vaccination is the procedure of administering a vaccine induces an immune response that can prevent disease vaccinated person if contact occurs then the agent for infection. That is, the vaccine, if effective, induces immunization: the vaccinated person is immunized against the ...