Question

1. What strategies should the team recommend to Dr. London?
2. How do you deal with parents who refuse to vaccinate their children?
3. As a public health official, should you promote vaccination compliance as a civic responsibility?
4. How do you manage a conflict among individual behavior, organizational behavior, and public health goals?

Answer 1

1. The team should recommend the following to Dr. London:

• All the children should be vaccinated and the vaccine should be started from the period of pregnancy.
• People should be made understand the need of vaccination.
• The doctors should take steps to make people aware about the safety measures of the people.
• The people must be made aware about the need of hygiene and vaccination.
• Health awareness should be emphasized to prevent disease.

2. There are many parents who bear prejudices and therefore do not want to vaccinate the children. In such case the health workers must visit the person and makes him understand the need of vaccine to the children. They should be made aware about the dangerous diseases. By presenting the statistics they should also make them aware that the vaccination is necessary for health safety.

3. Vaccination program is a civic duty and the health workers must promote this. It not only ensures the health safety of the concerned child, but also ensures the safety of others.

4. There are many causes of conflict between the health organizations and people. To eliminate the conflict the health workers should continue the health awareness programs in the people.