Vaccines: An achievement of civilization, a human right, our health insurance for the future
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[edit] Vaccines: An achievement of civilization, a human right, our health insurance for the future
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[edit] Context
This article details how the creation of vaccines should be considered one of humanity’s greatest achievements. The article, in relation to health insurance and its relation to human rights, is touched upon in this article in the form of it describing how making vaccines more accessible to third world countries, such as countries in Africa, can potentially save millions of lives. In relation to human rights, it also touches upon the fact that vaccines can also help with some aspects of gender inequality in terms of distribution. Finally, it touches upon how with the distribution and further pushing of vaccines as a human right, it can become a foundation for further medicinal development and continue to save lives of people on a global scale never seen before.
[edit] Overview
The author of this article doesn’t present all that many questions as they take this article as a way for them to inform the reader of how vaccines have affected our lives for the better and how the distribution of them and considering them a right that people have access to. The other touches upon the mortality rates of children before they have access to the vaccine and how with the help of a plan of set goals and strategies developed by Gavi or the Vaccine Alliance has allowed these countries and children to receive the vaccines needed to greatly increase their life expectancy for the future. The author considers vaccines an important asset to the continuous goal of proper global health for all people.
[edit] Strengths and Weaknesses
When reading this article, the strengths that it portrays is backing up information with external references for their points, and the fact that it states its information in short and easy to digest sections but that it doesn’t take away from it being informative for the reader. Whenever the author of this article states a certain numerical value for their points, or directly references a statement or quote, they list the person or article after the fact in the correct citation format for this paper. This shows that they have gathered their sources in order to create a paper that is numerically accurate, thought out, and that they have researched the topic from different sources to have a wider perspective on the subject they wish to portray. When they go on about the actual numbers or mortality rate for children that have not been vaccinated due to the limitations of the global health insurance policies, they have listed their source on where they got it from right after starting it, helping with the authenticity of this work. Another thing about the article is that there isn’t that much fluff, so to speak. Each section of the article has an organized flow for each section, starting with what the section is about, any relevant information pertaining to the section and then it goes off into more detail on the inner workings on how the point is made. An example pertaining to the issue of vaccines, and by extension a form of health insurance, as a human right is when they describe the mortality numbers for children without proper vaccination, then the segway into how the Vaccine Alliance is trying to tackle this problem. One weakness I could see for this article is that it doesn’t really provoke any questions from the reader. This means that it is quite an open and shut paper as they don’t try to address more issues pertaining to the possible struggle of the issues they talked about, I would go to say that their paper might be too positive, without fully addressing major issues for the reader to potentially research or look more into. This to me would take more away from looking at the overall issue of vaccines not being globally available, yet.
[edit] Assessment
In conclusion, this article would be suitable for audiences that wish to gather more information pertaining to the benefits of vaccines as a human right or just them as a globally available resource. Though I would hesitate to say it is a paper that would provoke more questions for the reader to consider, it still is a very competent and well put together paper for people researching this specific topic.
fm20pm 22:10, 01 December 2023 (EDT)
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