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Guided Annotated Bibliography- Mandatory Vaccination

Oscar L Perez Torres

Chamberlain University

ENGL147N-10149

Professor Chimere Parker

January 23, 2022

Approach and Purpose Paragraph

Mandatory vaccination has become a common and familiar term as the world is increasingly being exposed to various diseases. Professionals in the medical field have been compelled to encourage members of public to get vaccinated against a specific or a number of diseases. The overall purpose of vaccination is to increase the rate of antibodies production in the body directly boosting immunity levels against a causative agent of a disease. Many people having understood this reality has remained supportive of the mandatory vaccination. However, there are other people who feel that bodies have a natural way of fighting diseases and that vaccines should not be mandatory not ignoring massive deaths that occurs even after vaccination. All the same, a majority of governments across the world including US have a firm stand on mandatory vaccination like against diseases like polio, tetanus, pertussis, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis A and B and HPV. From the contrasting two aspects of the issue, the overall goal of the research is to understand whether it is necessary to have mandatory vaccines or people should be granted human rights to decide on whether to go for the vaccine or not. I have been successful in seeking for the sources since information is easily accessible and the good thing being that I do not have a plan of changing the strategies for the purpose of remaining focused to the goal.

Gualano, M. R., Olivero, E., Voglino, G., Corezzi, M., Rossello, P., Vicentini, C., ... & Siliquini, R. (2019). Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs towards compulsory vaccination: a systematic review. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 15(4), 918-931.

The article goes against mandatory vaccination as the authors’ claims that vaccinations should not be compulsory but rather voluntary. Sharing insights form an interview conducted, the researchers realized that many people are against mandatory vaccination as they feel that they have what is naturally needed to fight any disease causing agent in the body. Many people do not seem to understand the impact of vaccine in their bodies more so because they are able to overcome diseases that they contract even without the help of medication. They argue against mandatory vaccination claiming that it is a way for the government to abuse its powers with intentions of avoiding investing in the healthcare sector.

Morganstein, J. C., Fullerton, C. S., Ursano, R. J., Donato, D., & Holloway, H. C. (2017). Pandemics: health care emergencies. Textbook of disaster psychiatry, 270-284.

This article argues in support of mandatory vaccinations claiming that this is the only effective solution to pandemics that have a tendency of overwhelming the healthcare sector. in this article, the authors claims that whenever a pandemic is realized as a result of a health outbreak, medical facilities gets overcrowded the risks increases since the spread is easier when people are together. Vaccines are designed in a manner they would deal with a specific agent causing the disease without interfering with other body operations. it is for this reason that once a person gets vaccinated against a disease, he/she remains safe from contracting the disease despite any form of exposure. A perfect example shared is measles vaccinations that make it hard any vaccinated person to fall ill despite living and taking care of an infected adult or child. Hence, mandatory vaccination is meant to contain healthcare emergencies

Pierik, R. (2017). On religious and secular exemptions: A case study of childhood vaccination waivers. Ethnicities, 17(2), 220-241.

The article also goes against mandatory vaccination basing its arguments from a religious perspective that it is God alone who determines that that should live and those to die and not vaccination. In this article, the author claims that it is the lack of faith in God that makes people desperate and feel like they need vaccinations for protection. He explains that the reason why some people die of the same disease they have been vaccinated against or tends to get a booster shot is because vaccinations are not effective and making them mandatory does not change the reality.

Savulescu, J. (2021). Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk?. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(2), 78-85.

In this article, the author shares some of the important and valid reasons why vaccination should be mandatory. In the article, the author supports government claims that the world we are living in is highly exposed to viruses and bacterias that causes diseases and the challenge is that the environment accommodates the development of new and barely known viruses and bacterias. When a new medical challenge arises, there are a lot of people that gets affected and the only way the government can use to save people’s life is by developing a vaccine that would provide the body with necessary defense against the new threat. By making vaccination mandatory, the government means good to its people. The article shares historical examples of vaccines like influenza, hepatitis A and B and polio among others. it claims that were it not for the mandatory vaccinations, many children could not be getting past the age of five years as they could be succumbing to various diseases their bodies could be getting exposed to before their bodies could get a chance to develop ample immune. By going through mandatory vaccinations, children immune have been boosting increasing survival rate.

Tahamtan, A., Charostad, J., Hoseini Shokouh, S. J., & Barati, M. (2017). An overview of history, evolution, and manufacturing of various generations of vaccines. Journal of Archives in Military Medicine, 5(3).

The article highly supports mandatory vaccinations basing its arguments from the irreversible body effects of some diseases that the government has stated that vaccination against them should be mandatory. According to the authors’ there are diseases once they strike they leave the patient with permanent marks and effects on the body that cannot be remedied. The author raises an important question of why the government has not claimed that all diseases should be vaccinated against. They claim that governments being in charge of public health are more concerned on diseases that can have irreversible effects on the body as this is the only way they can support and maintain a positive public health status. Readers are encouraged to perceive the issue of mandatory vaccination from a positive perspective and remain supportive as a way of boosting their health systems.

Vrdelja, M., Učakar, V., & Kraigher, A. (2020). From mandatory to voluntary vaccination: intention to vaccinate in the case of policy changes. Public health, 180, 57-63.

The article shares neutral views as it supports vaccination as being important in regards to boosting immunity and at the same time going against the government and international medical bodies like WHO for making vaccination mandatory. In this article, the author claims that since vaccinations have proven to possess a lot of benefits when it comes to saving lives, people should be enlightened about them and not compelled to get vaccinated without clear understanding. The author suggests that there are a lot of facts the government can use for instance living cases of people affected by polio and those that got vaccinated since the difference is clear. Such examples can be used to change the mandatory vaccination to voluntary. The article shares neutral grounds and offers a suggestion that of implemented can reduce the rate of resistance against vaccination from the public.