Impact of Media on Parents' Acceptance of Immunization

Taking immunization for children is under the decision of parents which is more acquire for them to have knowledge and practices towards vaccination. Vaccination was used as a health tool to prevent children from infectious diseases including some potentially life-threatening diseases. Immunization saves the life of children for decades this is brought of a successful program that was taken in different places its coverage was expanded to widen and increase the beneficiary children’s.

Understanding Immunization

Immunization is the process to prevent against infectious diseases through vaccination. It was carried out by world health organization (WHO) in the year 1967-1977. The vaccine was taken to prevent diseases including measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis the reason children should fully immunize. It was highly recommended to be immunized in order to save a life from death, brought from the disease that was taken by viruses and bacteria. Annual vaccination was effective in reducing the number of children with an illness who aged 6 to 18 years old. In Wonago district, South Ethiopia the completion of immunization for children is very beneficial for mother and children in terms of health.

Challenges in Parental Acceptance

In South East Nigeria the acceptance of the parents to immunization was still the problem of the health facilities, and it is believed that parents were not assured because of unsure effectiveness of the immunization and also the knowledge about vaccination of the parents was poor which affect the decision of parents in taking immunization to their children. There are still unvaccinated children in Iraq because of parent’s decision against immunization where the demographic concerns of parents affect the decision making towards immunization (Al-lela, 2014).

The Role of Technology

The present generation is exposed to technology which is some public health take advantage over it (Keelan, 2011). Through social media all platform can be posted and be seen by some social media users, social media used as broadcasting media since it is the way of collaborating and co-creating content to the audience and they can also have some feedback or comments from the audience (Sharma 2017).

Influence of Broadcast Media

Broadcast media influence the decision making of the parents towards vaccination were 95% was reported that the source of the network affects the decision of both parents. The survey was taken Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas to parents aged 18 above through via online where it was stated that parents were influenced by the media sources around them.