Intro Flashcards
1
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Importance of vaccines
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- promote health
- have an expansive reach
- rapid impact
- save lives and costs
2
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Millenium Development goals
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- eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- achieve universal primary education
- promote gender equality and empower women
- reduce child mortality
- improve maternal health
- combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- ensure environmental sustainability
- develop a global partnership for developmetn
3
Q
Pasteur principles
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- isolate
- inactivate
- inject
4
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Problems leading to non-vaccination
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- weakness in the immunization system
- problems with communication and info
- knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of parents and HCW
- problems in family structure and community characteristics
5
Q
Why vaccinate in adolescents
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- optimal time
- they are a reservoir for infection
- waning infant vaccine induced immunity results in cases occurring in adolescents
- catch-up vaccines
6
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Why vaccinate adults?
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- vaccine preventable diseases cause significant morbidity and mortality
- waning vaccine induced immunity
- immune senecence
- concomitant health probs
- herd immunity
- high risk situations
7
Q
Challenges to universal vaccination
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- social, political and economic factors
- vaccine costs and funding
- health service problems
- HIV epidemic
- anti-vaccination lobby
- vaccine shortage
8
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Characteristics of an ideal vaccine
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- safe in all populations
- single dose
- induces lifelong immunity
- administrable without needle and syringe
- thermostable
- administrable with other vaccines
