A Real Time Ethnography
A Real Time Ethnography
A Real Time Ethnography
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Problem Statement:
What are the perceptions of parents with infant children or children aged 1-5 years on
vaccinating their children at this early age after this recent measles outbreak?
Objectives:
To explore the perceptions of parents regarding child vaccination before and after the measles
outbreak
To describe the factors that allow the parents to decide against or for child vaccination?
To discuss the perceptions of the parents on the causation how the measles outbreak came to be.
To discuss the risks and causes that characterize parents’ behaviors on child vaccination.
Conceptual Framework:
For this paper, the researcher will be borrowing Hechter and Kanazawa’s model for rational
choice theory which states that rational choice and behaviors of an individual is a multi leveled
concept, where the first level considers the cognitive aspect from the macro society’s perspective
i.e social and collective phenomenon, and the micro level, which emphasize the individuals
cognitive capacities given the first existing first level, i.e the situation, information and
generalizations formed from a series of repeated event with similar circumstances. In relation,
Serquina-Ramiro’s regulated personal control model will be used to explain further how
research on health decisions are best investigated how individual decisions are best looked at
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from the perspectives of those who undergo these processes, rather than overlook them as mere
rebellious whims.
The World Health Organization or WHO defines vaccines as, “a biological preparation that
improves immunity to a particular disease. The way that the vaccine works can be likened to
fighting fire with fire, an internal adaptation by the immune system. The vaccine is a weakened
form of a virus that when introduced to the body, the immune system will immediately react to,
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destroying the weak virus then remembering that such a virus exists so that the body may
recognize a stronger virus once it has intruded the body. Armed with previous knowledge of the
vaccine introduced virus, the body may react responsively to the dangerous foreign subject. The
first vaccine was first introduced during the time of the smallpox epidemic where one Edward
Jenner countered the small pox epidemic by first experimenting on a young boy how introducing
cowpox virus onto a scab caused by smallpox could immune the child against smallpox.
Eventually, Jenner would be known to be the founder of Vaccinology and the first vaccine for
smallpox was introduced.
It is mandated in the Republic Act No. 10152 or the Mandatory Infants and Children Health
Immunization Act of 2011 Section 2 that it would be the state’s policy to spearhead preventive
health care of infants and children by adopting “a comprehensive, mandatory, and sustainable
immunization program for vaccine-preventable diseases for all infants and children.” The
mandatory immunization is free of charge and will be available at any government hospital or
health center and introduced to children five years of age. With regards to the institutionalization
of 4P’s, under the Senate Bill 2117, children ages 0-5 must receive regular health and nutrition
services including checkups AND vaccinations., otherwise beneficiaries will have their grants
cut off. From this, one can assume that the issue of vaccination is not new to the Philippines,
given that even the state itself has institutionalized the need for vaccination to be a medium
particularly with children, granting healthcare to those below the poverty line.