Vaccination and Public Health - Assignments

1.      Blog Assignments required this week: 

Ø    Should “parents take a more active role in designing their children’s immunization schedule”? 

Ø    Would you support making vaccination programs “compulsory”? 

Ø    Post a comment to a classmate’s blog entry 

2.      Check out the following links: 

Vaccines--How and Why?

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/vaccines_how_why.html 

Public Health Risk Seen as Parents Reject Vaccines

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&oref=slogin 

Measles (Rubeola)  CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/measles/