A school district is not requiring vaccinations for children who are starting school. The nurse realizes that this action could have which effect?
1. Healthier children
2. A reduction in the number of colds and flu in the school
3. A decrease in school costs
4. An epidemic of an illness that could have been avoided with a vaccination
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Rationale 1: Healthier children are not the product of reduced usage of immunizations.
Rationale 2: Immunizations do not impact the number of colds and flu outbreaks in a school system.
Rationale 3: High rates of illness may increase school costs.
Rationale 4: For many diseases, the potential consequences of a single disease episode on the individual and society make prevention desirable, especially for highly contagious diseases that are capable of causing epidemics. In these instances, immunization or vaccination is used to provide artificially acquired immunity.
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