Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Professor Goeller
ENG 1201
16 March 2019
Annotated Bibliography
The year is 2019 and we have everything humans can possibly imagine. But yet people
still refuse to vaccinate their own children? Why are people not vaccinating their children? My
essay will be about why you should vaccinate your children. Diving into the essay it will contain
information about why you should vaccinate, reasons why people do not vaccinate their children
with counter arguments, medical testimonies revealing why you should vaccinate your children,
and covering topics and questions that arise when vaccinating your children.
This book is a great tool to use for my essay because in this book it provides information
regarding the history of vaccinations, elimination of polio in America, and the anti-vaccine
movement. This book is a reliable source to use for my essay because it is published recently,
found via e library, and has no problems with the CRAAP test. I can use this source for
informing the audience about vaccines and how the anti-vaccine movement became such a big
thing.
“CDC Features.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and
audience reasons why you should vaccinate your child. Reasons include… serious diseases are
still out there, sickness can spread very easily, and children need protection at an early age. This
website is credible for use because it is a .gov and tells the audience that this source is credible
because government websites cannot contain fake information. This source is a very basic source
with information, although it has some information it does not contain a lot of information. Just a
lot of quick facts and informing the reader to vaccinate their children.
Chido-Amajuoyi, Onyema Greg, et al. “Prevalence and Correlates of Never Vaccinated Nigerian
Children, Aged 1–5 years.” Vaccine, vol. 36, no. 46, Nov. 2018, pp. 6953–6960.
EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.10.006.
This source is another great source for why you should vaccinate your child. This article
reveals research in Nigerian children. Over 80% of Nigerian children are not vaccinated due to
socioeconomic factors and shows a high mortality rate in unvaccinated Nigerian children aged 1-
5. Many children in Africa are not vaccinated because of underlying factors including economics
and education. This is a good source to use for arguing why parents should vaccinate their
children because of the statistics revealing all the Nigerian children and correlations between not
vaccinating and mortality rates. This source is credible because it is a scholarly article from the
Health, High Intensity. “Paul Thomas, MD- Vaccine Friendly Plan.” YouTube, YouTube, 23
This YouTube video provides key information for any parent having a child and wanting
to make the best and healthiest decisions for their children. This certified pediatrician is being
interviewed and informing people about vaccines and the stigma around vaccinations. He also
gives advice on which vaccines to take and which vaccines not to take. He explains himself very
professionally and is creates multiple videos about anything in the medical world. This video is
reliable because it has been made within the past 2 years, reveals important pros and cons about
vaccines, he also refers to his book a lot of the time that the doctor himself wrote. This video can
be used in my essay to help explain and show truth that doctors really care about vaccinations
and want you to have the most information on your side for when your child needs vaccinations.
He also talks about which vaccines you should and should not take showing that he is on your
Libster, Romina. “Transcript of ‘The Power of Herd Immunity.’” Ted, Ted, Nov. 2014,
www.ted.com/talks/romina_libster_the_power_of_herd_immunity/transcript.
This is another video that is a good tool for my essay. This video talks about why
vaccines are important and why everyone should be vaccinated. She shares a personal story from
her hometown and how vaccines helped break the chain of infections in her town. “Herd
Immunity topic”. This is another credible source because it is from an official organization and is
recent in the past 5 years. This video is from Ted.com a popular and informative website. I can
use this story in my essay to help persuade people to vaccinate because of the herd immunity and
a personal testimony.
Matthijsse, Suzette M., et al. “The Health Impact of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination in the
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0202924.
This source is a mathematical modeling study showing the health impact of human
papillomavirus vaccine. This source is great to use for my essay because it shows the methods,
strategies, and results of the HPV vaccine screening. Revealing in the end that the vaccines
helped reduced the mortality rates and incidences of cervical cancer in girls and boys. This
source is reliable because it is a study that was in September 2018 in the Netherlands and
showing cause and effects of the HPV vaccinations in girls and boys also found on EBSCO host
www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/why-vaccinate.
This website is my 7th source to use for my essay. This source provides information on
the history of vaccines and how they became popular and why they are used today for children
and adults. This information can be used for my essay to help inform people on how vaccines
started and why they are being used because of how effective they are. This source is reliable
because it comes from The College of Physicians from Philadelphia. The source was also
updated 2018 so it is very recent and has the sources from the information the author was talking
about.