The prevention of once deadly disease is one of the better advancements of technology and medicine that we have today. Diseases that once were considered deadly, or sentenced a person to a life of being sick, are no longer concerns due to prevention through vaccination. Vaccination impacts everyone, due to the fact that everyone has the potential to get sick if not vaccinated or protected by others being vaccinated. Everyone should be educated in the benefits vaccines provide so they make the conscious decision to improve not only their and their children's heath, but public health in general. Due to my interest in science and biology, I know a lot about the topic if vaccines and disease prevention, and it is really fascinating to me. However, one thing I don't understand is why people are reluctant to vaccinate their children when it seems that only benefits come from vaccination if you are healthy enough to receive it. There is a lot of evidence that point to vaccines being the reason that disease decreases in a society, along with productivity and intellect among citizens increasing. It really seems like there are no cons to vaccinating your family and being vaccinated yourself, but there are still some reluctant to do it. There are many sources that prove the benefits of vaccination exist.

Sarah Webb's article, A Shot of Prevention, gives basic background information on what a vaccine is and how vaccinations are beneficial to the individual receiving them, and others that they come into contact with. The article also stresses the importance of continued vaccination and boosters to maintaining good health. She uses the protection of those who do, and don't, receive vaccines as evidence to support her claim that vaccines are important and essential to the health of society.  Webb truly believes vaccination is beneficial, and essential to today's world and understands that potentially deadly disease can return without continued vaccination against them. Webb is an associate scientist with Novartis vaccines. She has also written other articles on vaccination. She is educated in both vaccination and health, making her a very reliable and trustable source. This adds credibility to her article and makes you believe that what she is claiming is true. 

Straight Talk about Vaccination by Matthew Daley and Jason Glanz is an article that describes the benefits of vaccination. It also stresses the importance of parents being educated about vaccination before and during pregnancy to ensure that they, along with their doctor, make the best decision regarding vaccination. It uses the fact that although vaccination may not be 100% effective, those who are vaccinated experience less disease and sickness as evidence to prove their claim of vaccines being beneficial. Daley and Glanz really do believe that being vaccinated is better than not being vaccinated, even if it isn't 100% perfect yet; it's the best method we have developed so far. The authors are a pediatrician and an epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente's Institute for Health Research in Denver. This gives both them and the article credibility due to the fact that they are educated on the topic of vaccination and its benefits. Their careers and knowledge give this article credibility. 

The Economic and Social Benefits of Childhood Vaccinations in BRICS by Andrew Mirelman, Sachiko Ozawa, and Simrun Grewal is an article that describes some of the benefits of vaccination that aren't just the prevention and eradication of disease. They give the social, intellectual, and financial benefits of vaccination, along with the health benefits. The authors use evidence to prove that vaccination in a society causes less money to be spent on treatments by individuals and hospitals. Society also becomes more productive due to the fact that they cause improved cognitive development, educational attainment, and labor productivity among children. People are living longer and are able to contribute more to society for a longer period of time. The authors of this article are health economists at Johns Hopkins University that are educated in the subject of vaccination. They also did extensive research in five different counties to get the evidence to prove the other benefits. Their research and prior knowledge gives credibility to both them and this article.

This research question is arguable due to the fact that there are many people who don't believe that vaccines work, or that they have terrible side effects. These people disagree with vaccination and won't receive them or allow doctors to administer them to their children. All of the sources I have found so far have agreed that vaccination is beneficial and should be incorporated into society. They also all agree that doctors would be the best source of knowledge on the topic of vaccines, and that they should be the ones who answer questions and concerns. All of the sources I have found so far agree with my argument, so they contribute to my argument in different ways. If anything these sources would change my research question to include more benefits than just disease prevention, like the social and economic improvements that society experiences when vaccination is incorporated.
