Recommended Changes for a Better Alignment with Healthy People 2030

Several changes can be applied to the educational sessions to best align the HP 2030 objectives on childhood vaccination and the leading indicators. The main changes include using specifically conducted community research data and evidence to identify and determine priority needs related to childhood vaccination. Another change is to shift the education sessions from a general focus to focus on addressing the health disparities existing within the community that have an impact on access to childhood vaccinations as well as focusing on the marginalized community groups that are much affected by the health disparities. The educational sessions should also shift the goals from community focus to align with the set national goals on childhood vaccination.

Conclusion

Although many advancements have been made in health care and medicine, children are growing more vulnerable to diseases. Most of this vulnerability is linked to changes in climate and environmental pollution. As a point of relief, childhood immunization fortifies a child’s natural immunity and provides a guarantee of healthy living throughout childhood and transition to a healthy adult. As people, especially parents, are growing more concerned over the safety of vaccination in children, providing health education sessions backed with evidence can improve the rate of childhood vaccinations. Such educational sessions need to be problem-focused. In conclusion, training community trainers instead of using time-to-time education sessions can provide a sustainable source of community health education with better alignment with the HP 2030 objectives and improve future outcomes.

References

Andrade, G. (2021). Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy, conspiracist beliefs, paranoid ideation and perceived ethnic discrimination in a sample of University students in Venezuela. Vaccine, 39(47), 6837–6842. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.VACCINE.2021.10.037