Vaccinations are effective and safe

Running Head: INFLUENZA VACCINATION AMONG CHILDREN
Influenza Vaccination among Children
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Influenza vaccination among children
Introduction
Many parents are asking a question whenever they take their children to a pediatrician.
Do they have to immunize their children? Some parents have questioned the significance as well
as the need for their children to receive immunization (Canada Newswire, 2015). Their reasons
for doubts or objections differ from lack understanding of what vaccinations entails, religious
beliefs, or fear that their children will in effect acquire serious complications and reactions to the
vaccines. Vaccinations are effective and safe; however, numerous people still have questions
concerning their relevance as well as place in the community. The objective behind
immunization is to establish an environment in which children are free and safe from diseases. It
should be noted that vaccines interact with the immune system of an individual and normally the
interaction results in the body producing an immune response which is the same as the one
produced by a natural infection. Moreover, vaccines do not subject a child receiving the vaccine
to the disease per se or its potential complications. In the United States of America, for instance,
major outbreaks of diseases are virtually unheard since an elaborate immunization which has
been put in place throughout the decades have eliminated or suppressed numerous of potentially
dangerous diseases which the children could possibly contract.
Presently, diseases which are preventable by vaccination like influenza are near or at
record lows. This paper will critically discuss the significance of flu immunization, the
objections of flu immunization as well as the strategies healthcare providers especially nurses
can employ to promote flu immunization. The paper will discuss these issues based on a case
study provided for discussion.

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Background information of influenza
Influenza has been reported to cause an approximated 44100-554000 mortality yearly
globally. Most of the mortality happen among the elderly individuals as well as individuals
having chronic cardiopulmonary diseases, yet the toll entails 29000-112000 deaths among
children who are less than five years old. Due to these global statistics, numerous countries
including Australia have executed influenza immunization programs to reduce the mortality and
morbidity resulting from influenza. The World Health Organization recommends that nations
should consider flu immunization for individuals at higher risk of serious illness from flue or
death (Duvall, 2019). Moreover, the WHO has recognized and identified the following groups of
people at higher risk of influenza, that is, children aged six to fifty-nine months, pregnant
women, people with particular chronic health conditions, elderly adults and healthcare
providers/workers. Historically, flu vaccination programs have been executed majorly in
developed nations. in present years, nevertheless, developing nations have started flu
immunization programs. Furthermore, policy makers in both developed and developing nations
are progressively examining how and whether to execute new flu immunization programs.
Increasing the number of individuals immunized every year against seasonal flu is an objective
of numerous private and public health programs not only in the United States of America but
also globally.
In the U.S., seasonal flu is a disease results in hospitalization, substantial illness as well
as deaths yearly, and results in mortality from other causes like congestive cardiac failure and
pneumonia. It should be noted that seasonal flu places children, older adults aged sixty-five years
and older and individuals of any age who are suffering from chronic health conditions like
diabetes, asthma and overweight at greater risks for serious illness and loss of lives. Moreover,