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Clarisa Melgar

Professor Leslie Bruce

English 301

11 December 2017

Annotated Bibliography MLA

Working Title: Vaccines versus disease, bettering the understanding of vaccines in the

community

Research Question: How can we give more confidence to skeptical individuals so they will be

vaccinated?

Working Thesis: Vaccines are a barrier against deadly diseases, how can health care specialists

better the communities on the importance of vaccines and to vaccinate?

Introduction:

Vaccines have been a constant controversial topic in todays society. Many parents are

worried of the outcomes of vaccines. Is there a link to Autism and other disorders and vaccines?

Why do a percentage of children get severe adverse reactions to vaccinations? These are leading

questions within the debate of whether or not to vaccinate young children. Children receive a

total of thirteen vaccines between birth and the age of six, this is not including the yearly

Influenza (Flu) shot recommendations. To some parents this may be a daunting number of

injections to have your child endure, and to other parents this is a necessity for their childs well-

being. Public health care workers make it a priority to facilitate in every way that everyone in the

community is able to receive vaccinations in order to not contract a disease and keep the

wellness of all. Vaccines are a barrier against deadly diseases, how can health care specialists

better the communities on the importance of vaccines and to vaccinate?

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Annotations:

Angwenyi, Vibian, Kamuya Dorcas, Mwachiro, Dorothy, Marsh, Vicki, Njuguna, Patricia, et al.

Working with community health workers as 'volunteers' in a vaccine trial: Practical and

ethical experiences and implications. Developing World Bioethics, vol. 13, no. 1, 2013,

pp. 38-47, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.lib-

proxy.fullerton.edu/doi/10.1111/dewb.12015/full. Accessed 5 October 2017.

a) This article explored the advantages and strategies involving workers in health care

within a Kenyan vaccination clinic.

b) I plan to use this fact from the article, representatives of the health care system can be

important players to include in community engagement strategies in clinical trials to

show the advantages to having health care workers as volunteers in a clinic. With

familiarity and knowledgeable people, it will help provide a supporting argument that

individuals in the community who are apprehensive of vaccinations for themselves and

their children due to the side effects, would feel more comfortable and willing to be

vaccinated under this condition. In turn, the overall goal would be to have more people

immunized.

Gray, J. "Rotavirus vaccines: safety, efficacy and public health impact." Journal of Internal

Medicine 270.3 (2011): 206-214. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-

2796.2011.02409.x/full. Accessed 12 Oct 2017.

a) This source discusses the Rotavirus, what it is, and studies of trials that were done to

research its affects.

b) I will use this source to give an example of how health specialists have conducted the

research and found the safety behind immunizing children with the Rotavirus vaccine. I
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will also utilize the fact stating that during clinic trials, post vaccine transmission showed

that the two vaccines administered, RotaTeq and RotaRix, were effective for preventing

severe rotavirus disease, decreasing gastroenteritis-associated mortality and lessened

acute gastroenteritis and reduced the frequency of emergency room visits and

hospitalizations.

Lewandowsky, Stephan, et al. Misinformation and Its Correction. Psychological Science in the

Public Interest, vol. 13, no. 3, 2012, pp. 106131. http://journals.sagepub.com.lib-

proxy.fullerton.edu/doi/pdf/10.1177/1529100612451018. Accessed 12 Oct 2017.

a) This article summarizes the origins of how a claim is made, going about finding the

validity and how to correct misinformation.

b) I will use this source to provide a strong counterargument as to how misinformation can

lead to mass panic and or unwillingness to vaccinate. Anti-vaccine individuals can go by

word-of-mouth rather than doing the deep research and contacting accredited officials.

Word-of-mouth can become misinformation, like the telephone game, and the end

information passed along is wrong or incomplete. I feel the processes by which people

form their opinions and beliefs are therefore of obvious public interest, particularly if

major streams of beliefs persist that are in opposition to established facts will help

facilitate an understanding of this phenomenon.

Schoeppe, Jennie, Choadle, Allen, Molton Mackenzie, Faubion, Todd, Miller, Creagh, et al.

The Immunity Community: A Community Engagement Strategy for Reducing Vaccine

Hesitancy. Vaccine Promotion, vol. 18, No. (5) 2017, pp. 654661,

http://journals.sagepub.com.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/doi/pdf/10.1177/1524839917697303.

Accessed 12 Oct 2017.

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a) This article studies positive impact approaches to better equip parental knowledge on

vaccines and that children are being immunized.

b) Public health analysts need to provide the community with more information on vaccines.

This article can appear as my counter argument article because it gives the importance

and specifics of a vaccine. I plan on summarizing the fact that this study demonstrates

the promise of a new and innovative approach to reducing vaccine hesitancy: engaging

parent volunteers to be advocates in their own communities. The approach builds on

findings that parents social networks are a strong predictor of vaccine acceptance

(Brunson, 2013) and that likeable, trustworthy messengers are positively received (Jarrett

et al., 2015; Opel et al., 2009).