CNA250 Nursing Practice 2

Barriers for non-vaccination among indigenous people

In spite of being successful as a public health intervention, in many countries vaccination still falls short in fulfilling the level of health care services to ensure the community protection. In these countries, there are several general barriers responsible for non-vaccination in indigenous people. Australia is one of these countries lacking behind in providing proper vaccination to the indigenous people to ensure a healthy community (PMC, (2018). There are several barriers causing these issues. Some of them are as follows:

Socio-demographic characteristics: There are issues related to material status, maternal age, race, and family size or income. These differences in the society are causing a delay of essential vaccination to the indigenous people.

Knowledge: Still there are communities not aware with different programs of government started to provide a better vaccination to their society or community. More awareness programs are needed to make people aware about vaccination and its essentiality. People are scared about the side effects of vaccination due to lack of knowledge.

Beliefs: There are still some communities having their own beliefs against the vaccination of indigenous people. These communities are not aware of the necessity of proper vaccination and keep themselves away from vaccination.

Trust establishment: There are communities having no faith or trust in their government of health system. People with this lack of trust in their medical community are scared of some illegal experiments over them and in order to prevent themselves from this they do not take proper vaccination and not even give it to their children.

Social and cultural norms: There are communities influenced by their culture of the family to avoid vaccination. Their family or cultural influence dominates over the awareness of vaccination essentiality. Such influences are keeping indigenous people away from their essential vaccination.

Influence of healthcare provider: In many countries, health care providers failed to influence people to take essential vaccination at right time. This weak influence of health care providers also causes non-vaccination in several communities.

Concern about the vaccination process: Incomplete information about the process of vaccination also avoiding proper vaccination essential for indigenous people.

Access to services: Lack of access to the services provided by medical community or government causes non-vaccination for indigenous people in several communities.

Worldview for health: People around the world prefer natural interventions over vaccination for indeg3nous people. This view of people around the world is influencing communities to keep them away from vaccination.

Competing priorities: Increasing competence among social and childcare priorities also causing non-vaccination for indigenous people (Pearce, et al., 2015).

Impact of non-vaccination on individual, community, and health system

In Australia, the inferior health status of indigenous people is reported extensively and linked to the inextricably to their economic and social disadvantages (Doherty, et al., 2016). For individuals, vaccination is provided to decrease their health inequity focused on prevention and primary care in early age. Non-vaccination causes health issues for their entire community and reflects the failure of the country’s health system. In the case of individuals, non-vaccination causes a high risk of disease attacks in their future life along with a low resistibility for dangerous diseases.

References

Doherty, M., Buchy, P., Standaert, B., Giaquinto, C., & Prado-Cohrs, D., (2016). Vaccine impact: Benefits for human health. Vaccine, 34, pp. 6707-6714.

PMC, (2018). Barriers, supports, and effectiveness interventions for uptake of human papillomavirus- and other vaccines within global and Canadian indigenous people: A systematic review protocol. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5833130/#CR52

Pearce, A., Marshall, H., Bedford, H., & Lynch, J., (2015). Barriers to childhood immunization: Findings from the longitudinal study of Australian children. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4503793/