jay_a2j wrote:PLAYER57832 wrote:Just the same ole condescending remarks as usual, topped of with a healthy dose of unsubstantiated "proof".
PLAYER shut it.
Not as long as you keep spouting your idiocy!
You are WAY out of line on this one jay. That you refuse to even verify just shows you are a wilful idiot.
Mexico more effective than U.S. at immunizing children
Mexico's paternalistic approach has led to a 96% vaccination rate for children ages 1 to 4, compared with 79% of American 2-year-olds.
By EDWARD HEGSTROM
Houston Chronicle
MONTERREY, MEXICO – If parents here are late getting their child inoculated, a public-health nurse will come to their home, pull down the youngster's pants and give the vaccination right there in the living room. anyway, and the paperwork is left with the baby sitter.
In Monterrey, like Houston, an industrial city of more than a million with large pockets of underclass, the government divides its poor neighborhoods into sections of about four square blocks each, then puts a nurse in charge of supervising parents in each area to ensure all of the children are vaccinated on time.
It is a paternalistic approach almost impossible to imagine in the United States - where privacy rights and other freedoms are highly valued and immunizations are increasingly feared - but it has proved remarkably effective: Mexico has a 96 percent vaccination rate for children ages 1 to 4, compared with an immunization rate of 79 percent for 2-year-olds in the United States.
The disparity is even greater between Monterrey and Houston, which has one of the most stubbornly low vaccination rates in the United States. In Monterrey, 98 percent of the children ages 1 to 4 are fully immunized, a higher percentage than reached by any U.S. city. In Houston, barely 71 percent of 2-year-olds are caught up on their shots.
Mexico's immunization success is something Americans - particularly Texans - can cheer. Epidemics of preventable disease used to go back and forth between the two countries. That no longer happens, thanks mostly to the remarkable but unheralded improvements in Mexico and other countries in the region.
"One of the main reasons there is no longer measles in the United States is because we no longer have measles in Latin America and the Caribbean," said Dr. Ciro de Quadros, the recently retired director of immunizations for the Pan American Health Organization. Mexico, he said, has done a "remarkable" job of vaccinating its children in the past decade.
Conventional wisdom says it is harder to develop a public-health system in a poor country. But Quadros notes that a wealthy country like the United States has problems of its own.
