Assignment: Contrast Vaccination Systems

Assignment 13 CT – 574: Vaccination Systems
Assignment: Contrast Vaccination Systems
· As indicated in your readings, health and development work together.
· Compare and contrast vaccination systems in two developing countries and one more economically developed country (MEDC).
· Address how the developing countries can improve their systems, including current systems, weak components in the current system, and elements that can be improved, as seen in MEDC successes.
Your paper should meet the following structural requirements:
· 7 pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages;
· Formatted according to APA writing standards; and
· Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external
· Utilize headings to organize the content in your work
Assignment: Contrast Vaccination Systems
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body’s immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future. Vaccines can be prophylactic (example: to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infection by a natural or “wild” pathogen), or therapeutic (e.g., vaccines against cancer are being investigated).[1][2][3][4]
The administration of vaccines is called vaccination. Vaccination is the most effective method of preventing infectious diseases;[5] widespread immunity due to vaccination is largely responsible for the worldwide eradication of smallpox and the restriction of diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus from much of the world. The effectiveness of vaccination has been widely studied and verified; for example, vaccines that have proven effective include the influenza vaccine,[6] the HPV vaccine,[7] and the chicken pox vaccine.[8] The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that licensed vaccines are currently available for twenty-five different preventable infections.[9]
The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Edward Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1798 in the long title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox.[10] In 1881, to honor Jenner, Louis Pasteur proposed that the terms should be extended to cover the new protective inoculations then being developed.[11]