Kaitlyn Dowdy

Adam Padgett
ENGL 102
March 1st, 2016
Why to Vaccinate your Children.
Inquiry: Why is it important to vaccinate your children and the reasons people your so
hesitant to do so?
Proposed thesis: The parents should understand the importance of vaccinating their
children when they are growing up.
Five Important Reasons to Vaccinate Your Child." Five Important Reasons to
Vaccinate Your Child. Vaccines, n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2016.
This article has a great agreement on five major reasons why to vaccinate your
children. First, immunizations can save your childs life. Once before advance
medical science thousands of children were being injured or killed by diseases.
Now more than 50% of injuries or death cases due to diseases are eliminated due
to successful vaccination on children. Second, vaccination is very safe and
effective. The article states. The disease-prevention benefits of getting vaccines
are much greater than the possible side effects for almost all children. Third,
immunization protects others you care about. The reason being some people cant
receive vaccinations due to age, allergies, and etc. This article states, not only
protects your family, but also helps prevent the spread of these diseases to your
friends and loved ones. Fourth, immunizations can save your family time and
money. This article states, some vaccine-preventable diseases can result in
prolonged disabilities and can take a financial toll because of lost time at work,

medical bills or long-term disability care. Fifth, immunization protects future

generations. This article states, If we continue vaccinating now, and vaccinating
completely, parents in the future may be able to trust that some diseases of today
will no longer be around to harm their children in the future. The source is very
credible for 2 main reasons. This website is well known for good information and
other sources to back up the information.
"Why Immunize." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 23 Sept. 2014. Web. 05 Feb. 2016.
This article is a very great and reliable coming straight from the center for disease
control and prevention website. This article supports the previous article stating
on why to vaccinate your children. One of the major reasons why you want to
vaccinate your children the article states, We don't vaccinate just to protect our
children. We also vaccinate to protect our grandchildren and their grandchildren.
Each time a child is vaccinated it helps prevents more cases of children being
injured or even worse killed by a diseases in the future. This article states that,
Vaccinations are one of the best ways to put an end to the serious effects of
certain diseases. The centers for disease control and prevention is one of the
most credible sources for information on a wide section of prevention and
diseases throughout the world. This website is not bias but states the facts of how
to prevent diseases.
Brunson, Emily K. "Identifying Parents Who Are Amenable to Pro-Vaccination
Conversations." Global Pediatric Health 2 (2015): 2333794X15616332.
This article gives you an understanding on how undecided parents can be
influenced to be pro vaccinations. There were several mothers picked and a few

couples pick for this study. The children had to be at least 18 months or younger
for the parents to do the interview. The interview was done in the parents home or
in a public quiet area that ranges from 30 minutes up to 2 hours. The families
were giving 20 dollar for their time after the interview. Then, the interview data
was organized in a coding so that the information could be reevaluate for each
interview. Finally, the results of the interview presented 3 major points that
persuaded the mothers and couples decision. The result stated, when parents
were initially making vaccination decisions for their first child, when parents had
not made set or final decisions and were actively in the process of assessing their
options, and during particular events in childrens lives when circumstances were
influencing parents to reconsider previously made vaccination choices.
Wang, Eileen, Yelena Baras, and Alison M. Buttenheim. "Everybody just wants to do
what's best for their child: Understanding how pro-vaccine parents can support a
culture of vaccine hesitancy." Vaccine 33.48 (2015): 6703-6709.
The agreement in this article is decisions if people that state they are provaccination before truly knowing all the information well stay pro-vaccination
afterwards. These parents were the upper-middle class living in Philadelphia with
young children. The parents in this study didnt all investigate information on
vaccinations when others did very detail investigating on the topic. An interview
process was conducted with the parents to see if there decisions on pro
vaccination had change if they studied the topic. The result states, Parents who
sought out vaccine information were often overwhelmed by the quantity and
ambiguity when interpreting that information, and, consequently, had to rely on
their own instinct or judgment to make vaccine decisions. In particular, while

parents in this sample did not refuse vaccines, and described themselves as provaccine, they did frequently delay or space vaccines. To conclude this study
demonstrates why there is such hesitancy in a parents choice to vaccinate or to
not vaccinate their children.
Quadri-Sheriff, Maheen, et al. "The role of herd immunity in parents decision to
vaccinate children: a systematic review." Pediatrics 130.3 (2012): 522-530.
This article gives people a better understanding if herd immunity effectively
influences parent options on vaccinating their children. The study was designed to
get original information of parent or guardians of children younger then 18
discussing the benefits of vaccination your children. One of the major results
across the board was the main motivation to vaccination was the benefits to
others. The article states, One to six percent of parents ranked benefit to others as
their primary reason to vaccinate their children, and 37% of parents ranked
benefit to others as their second most important factor in decision-making. This
concluded that parents are more agreeable to vaccinate their children for the
benefits of others.
Littlewood, Robert. "Parental reasons for failure to vaccinate." The Journal of the Royal
College of General Practitioners 36.285 (1986): 182.
This source talks about different reasons why parents or guardians failed to
vaccinate their children. The clinic sent out a questionnaire to the parents of the
children that didnt attend their appointment for their vaccination. Forty of the
fifty-five questionnaires were entirely finished by the parents or guardians. The
source states, The main reason (85%) given for failure to attend for vaccination
was the concurrent occurrence of minor illness in the child. Of the parents

completing the questionnaire 75% considered immunization to be effective, 13%

thought that immunization was not generally a safe procedure and only 70%
thought the diseases we immunize against were still serious. This article
concluded that the parents lack of drive was the general purpose on why the
children didnt attend the clinic for their vaccinations.

Kaitlyn,
Youve done a really great job compiling relevant and credible sources. Your annotations
are insightful and do a good job showing me what, generally, they are about. I would ike
to read a little more commentary/analysis whenever you make use of a quote. That should
be a reflex for you in academic writing: quoting and then commenting. Otherwise, great
work here. Looking forward to seeing how this develops.