Discussion about Vaccination Policy of WHO

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DISCUSSION ABOUT VACCINATION POLICY OF WHO
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Wilder-Smith, A., Vannice, K.S., Hombach, J., Farrar, J. and Nolan, T., 2016. Population
perspectives and World Health Organization recommendations for CYD-TDV dengue
vaccine. The Journal of infectious diseases, 214(12), pp.1796-1799.
While developmental and implementation stages of dengue vaccination in 2015, a journal
was published as the journal of infectious disease, where the researchers mentioned that World
Health Organisation plays an important role in determining the CYD-TDV dengue vaccination
(Wilder-Smith et al. 2016). This comment raised the concern of the healthcare community as
WHO organization does not holds the policy to approve or disapprove any helathcare
intervention and this decision is made by the national regulatory authorities. This was the central
idea of this peer reviewed book chapter, which will help to identify the limits of the World
Health Organization in approving any interventions and completely focuses on providing
guidelines to the national health authorities of 145 countries registered.
Bustreo, F., Okwo-Bele, J.M. and Kamara, L., 2015. World Health Organization
perspectives on the contribution of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization on
reducing child mortality. Archives of disease in childhood, 100(Suppl 1), pp.S34-S37.
In the research articles by Bustreo, Okwo-Bele and Kamara (2015), researchers were
determining the role of the World Health Organization in spreading the vaccination associated
policies and guidelines throughout the world, which ultimately decreases the rate of child
mortality from 12.6 million in 1990 to 6.3 million deaths in 2013. It further discusses the Global
Vaccine Action Plan 2011 to 2020 to increase the equitable access of immunization and
vaccination throughout the world and through that develop a Global Alliance for Vaccines and
Immunization (GAVI) to enhance the pace of helathcare needs of children and women. This

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central idea of WHO of making alliance with national health agencies to spread and aware the
people about immunization could help in future health promotional programs for immunizing
children in a remote location.
Shen, A.K., Fields, R. and McQuestion, M., 2014. The future of routine immunization in
the developing world: challenges and opportunities. Global Health: Science and
Practice, 2(4), pp.381-394.
In this article of Shen, Fields and McQuestion (2014), the central focus of the discussion
was the routine immunization strategy developed by the World Health Organization in 1974.
This strategy was named as Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), in which the
organization provided a guideline to implement the routine vaccination for children against
tetanus, whooping cough, polio, tuberculosis, measles and provided the national healthcare
organizations with ideations and strategies so that they implement such policy within their
territory to protect their children and decrease the mortality rate. This central idea is helpful in
determining the extent to which, the WHO could use the policies for the development of healthy,
reliable and quality healthcare service.
Odone, A., Fara, G.M., Giammaco, G., Blangiardi, F. and Signorelli, C., 2015. The future
of immunization policies in Italy and in the European Union: The Declaration of
Erice. Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 11(5), pp.1268-1271.
This document by Odone (2015) discusses about the role of World Health Organisation
and the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) in
determining vaccination policy in Italy and other European Union Territories for the
improvement of public health associated complications. The effective policies of immunization