Salsabil Taleb
Annotated Bibliography FINAL
“10 Reasons To Get Vaccinated.” National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, 24 Sept. 2019, https://www.nfid.org/immunization/10-reasons-to-get-vaccinated/.
As stated by the title, this article provides the reader with ten important reasons on why one should get vaccinated. It states important information such as not being vaccinated can lead one to get viruses and bacteria that are still present today. Vaccines keep you healthy and they claim that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also recommend that one gets vaccinated to lead a healthy lifestyle. When chosen not to get vaccinated, it can leave your immune system weak and vulnerable to many infectious diseases such as hingles, pneumococcal disease, influenza, and HPV and hepatitis B, both leading causes of cancer.
Bronfin, Daniel R. “Childhood Immunization Controversies: What Are Parents Asking?” The Ochsner Journal, US National Library of Medicine, 2008. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3096324/
The author of this article endeavors to put into point of view the worries communicated by patients comparative with the advantages of this most significant public health intervention. The main question is, what are the inquiries that patients are posing to their pediatricians? The article provides an introduction of background information on preventive care and provides some statistical findings on parents feeling like their children have been receiving too many vaccinations. The author then includes in the rest of his article, many different questions and beliefs that are made my parents who are wary of vaccinations such as “My Daughter Doesn’t Need the Haemophilus Influenza Type B Vaccine Because She’s Not in Day Care.” and he goes on to explain more in-depth on this statement and why it would be false.
Calandrillo, Steve P. “Vanishing Vaccinations: Why Are so Many Americans Opting out of Vaccinating Their Children?” PubMed.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2004, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15568260.
This article explores the reasons as to why many parents are opting out of vaccinating their children and the main cause being that misleading information are being put out on the internet for parents to see causing a fear of vaccines. It also includes that many reasons that parents opt out is because of religious beliefs, the right to choose on what they want, misinformation, etc. It also explains the law behind parents choosing to not immunize their kids, as far as just completing a check list to opt out.
Gorney, Cynthia. “Here’s Why Vaccines Are So Crucial.” National Geographic, 24 Oct. 2017, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/11/vaccine-health-infection-global-children/.
This article by Cynthia Gorney provides many information on why vaccines are so important and goes on to provide scientific reasons as to how vaccinations can prevent basic diseases such as polio and measles. She talks about the bacteria that can be passed and is the cause of many diseases but how immunizing can help prevent that. There are also many points of views and stories from different countries such as Bangladesh and how vaccinated preventable diseases has been affecting children worldwide who have no access to good healthcare and it makes you think as to how some American parents choose not to take advantage of their priviledge.
McKee, Chephra, and Kristin Bohannon. “Exploring the Reasons Behind Parental Refusal of Vaccines.” The Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics : JPPT : the Official Journal of PPAG, Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group, Apr. 2016, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4869767/..
This research article provides a super in-depth look into why parents choose not to vaccinating their kids. The authors state four main categorical reasons as to why parents choose this such as religious, personal/philosophical beliefs, concern for safety and the want to know more about healthcare services and its intentions. The article contains studies and many statistical findings that explain the reasoning behind a parent’s choice of not vaccinating and goes more in-depth on the categorical reasonings.
“Why Parents Refuse to Vaccinate Their Children, in Their Own Words.” Advisory Board Daily Briefing, https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2019/05/13/antivax.
This research article by the Advisory Board Daily Briefing starts off with answering a question which is who are the anti-vaccine parents? Reich, the main researcher of this article has spent half a decade researching anti-vaccine parents, who they are, their beliefs, and their choice of not choosing to vaccinate their kids. She goes on to explain that there are two types of anti-vax parents, one being parents who firmly do not believe in vaccinations and that it’s impossible to persuade them otherwise and a larger group of being parents who believe in vaccines but they don’t think it’s necessary for their children and/or don’t want to give every vaccinations experts “claim” to be the most important and efficient. The article ends with Reich belief that public health officials should appeal to anti-vaccine parents such as convincing parents to think of the well-being of their entire community and not just the safety of their children even though that’s just as important.
