Importance of Child vaccination - Schedule & Types

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Why Vaccination is Necessary for Newborn / Baby?
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• Vaccinations not only keep newborn, baby safe by
  eliminating or significantly reducing harmful
  diseases that are used to transmit from child to
  child, but they also protect from potentially
  fatal diseases such as and not limited to-
• Tetanus (lockjaw)
• Diphtheria
• Hepatitis
• Measles
• Polio
• TB (tuberculosis) etc.

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• India has the greatest number of deaths among
  children under the age of five years (early
  childhood) globally, the majority of which are
  due to vaccine-preventable diseases.
• Protection against communicable diseases requires
  timely child vaccination to develop immunity and
  minimize susceptibility to infection.

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• Delays in vaccines beyond the recommended time
  frame (i.e., untimely vaccination) could expose
  the newborn, baby or infant to a prolonged risk
  of disease and contribute to the ongoing
  transmission of diseases.
• Therefore, vaccination timeliness is an important
  criterion for evaluating immunization program
  performance, since coverage estimates alone may
  lead to incorrect assumptions about herd immunity
  and transmission risk.

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Herd immunity

• It is more difficult for an infectious virus to
  spread in a community when a large number of
  individuals are immune to it. This is called herd
  immunity which can be typically achieved through
  vaccination.
• Prior to vaccination, natural attainment of herd
  immunity was only possible with direct infection,
  which posed a threat of fatality.

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• Through herd immunity, even the people who are
  not immune to a disease can be protected, such as
  those who
• never contracted the disease
• can't get vaccinated
• cannot become immune because due to a weak immune
  system
• When about 70-80 of people are immune to an
  infection, the entire community is usually
  protected.

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