The Dilemma Of Artificial Immunization - 1014 Words

The Dilemma of Artificial Immunization: Vaccines Vaccines have been used to prevent diseases for centuries, and have saved countless lives of children and adults. The smallpox vaccine was invented as early as 1796, and since then the use of vaccines has continued to protect us from countless life threatening diseases such as polio, measles, and pertussis. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2010) assures that vaccines are extensively tested by scientist to make sure they are effective and safe, and must receive the approval of the Food and Drug Administration before being used. â€Å"Perhaps the greatest success story in public health is the reduction of infectious diseases due to the use of vaccines† (CDC, 2010). Routine†¦show more content†¦Up to the 1980s only few economic evaluations had been carried out. Since then the confrontation of most countries with escalating health care costs and tighter budgets have awakened the interest in pharmacoeconomic analysis. Resources used to provide health care ar e vast but not limitless. When clinicians are asked to participate in decisions for large groups of patients (in a managed care context, in an institution, or at the level of local health authorities), the balance between consumption of resources and the benefits of an intervention is important. Clinicians may use cost-effectiveness and cost–benefit studies to inform such decisions (but not to make them). Because of differences in methods, the presentation of results, and economic evaluations of the same vaccination strategy by different groups may have divergent results. Problem Statement n Purpose There are many viruses and infections that can affect people everyday. People can get diseases due to malfunctions of the human body. Malfunctions can also be due to poor diet or lack of exercise. Microorganisms that infect humans aren’t really trying to cause disease. It is just that they often command the resources of the cell that they infect and this can kill the cell directly or indirectly if the immune system spots the infection and kills the cell as a rather blunt way of attacking the virus. The immune