HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 2022

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Research Claim
It should be compulsory for Australians to vaccinate their children.
Research Question
Does the Hepatitis B vaccine help the children in Australia to completely eradicate the
disease?
Rationale
Acute infection and their complications, that includes liver disease and hepatocellular
carcinoma, lead to most of Australia's hepatitis B disease burden. Chronic disease burden has
increased with growing numbers of immigrants from high prevalence hepatitis B areas
(MacDonald et al., 2018; Kroger, 2013).
Hepatitis B is a disease induced by the liver-influencing hepatitis B virus. Hepatitis B
virus can be transferred from an infectious individual through inoculation via broken and
penetrated skin, or through the mucosal contact along with blood and other body fluids which
is primarily vaginal fluids or semen (Kroger, 2013). For children, immunocompromised
individuals, individuals with medical risk factors, people whose occupation raises their risk of
obtaining hepatitis B, including health care employees, vaccination with hepatitis B is
suggested. For babies and kids, vaccination with hepatitis B is advised in a 4-dose timetable
at birth and 2, 4 and 6 months of age.For all other risk groups, vaccination with hepatitis B is
suggested, generally in a 3-dose (MacDonald et al., 2018). Adolescents aged 11–15 may
receive 0 and 6 months of alternative 2-dose timetable. Some individuals become chronically
infected after severe hepatitis B virus infection. The illness can be transmitted by people with
chronic hepatitis B, including from mom to kid. In up to 25 percent of instances, chronic
hepatitis B is connected with cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma death (Smith, 2017).

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Children are advised to receive the 4 doses of the hepatitis B vaccine: one dose of the
monovalent hepatitis B vaccine at birth and 3 doses of the paediatric hepatitis B vaccine at 2,
4 and 6 months of age generally supplied as DTPa-hepB-IPV-Hib. For all newborn babies,
rationale for the birth dosage is to avoid: vertical transmission from a mom with the chronic
hepatitis B, recognition of mistakes or delays in maternal screening, reporting, and
communication or suitable reaction (Kroger, 2013). It is also necessary as it prevents the
horizontal transfer to the infant from individuals with the chronic hepatitis B who are in the
home or in close contacts during the first months of life. The birth dose should be provided to
newborns as quickly as they are stable medically and preferably within 24 hours of birth, but
the vaccine can be administered within the first 7 days. Before the child is released from the
obstetric hospital or delivery unit, every attempt should be created to give the vaccine
(MacDonald et al., 2018).
Thus, it is necessary that the children from the birth are given vaccine for Hepatitis B
disease that will help to eradicate the disease. Thus, this proves the research claim that it
should be compulsory for Australians to vaccinate their children (Said & Abdelwahab, 2015).
Evidence based arguments
There is enough that shows that there have been cases where it is seen that the use of
vaccine has been reduced or refused by a lot of people. Many of the arguments are focused on
fields of medical science distrust. They promote the concept that vaccines are inevitably
hazardous due to the introduction of toxins through vaccination into the body (Kroger, 2013;
MacDonald et al., 2018). Other reasons arise from the wrong information about the immune
system and the reaction of the vaccine, which claims that the use of the vaccine makes the
immune system active, and the natural immunity is good than vaccine-induced immunity.
Here the use and the purpose of the vaccine are entirely ignored (MacDonald et al., 2018).