On June 30, 2015, California Governor Gerry Brown signed SB 277, vastly reducing allowable exemptions for mandatory school immunizations. Your state legislature is considering a similar bill (or if you live in California, revisiting the law).

Prepare a 3-5 page analysis (not including title page and references) that examines the public health, legal, and policy issues involved in these deliberations. APA format and citations only.

Answer preview

The law clearly says that any school regardless being a private or public day care centers, pre-schools, elementary schools and secondary schools will not admit the children who are not immunized against ten serious diseases. Those diseases include polio, rubella, hepatitis B, chicken pox, tetanus, mumps, measures, whooping cough (pertussis), diphtheria and Haemophilus influenza type b (bacterial meningitis). If the California Department of Public Health saw the necessity of adding other vaccination requirements, parents were mandated to disregard their personal or religious beliefs (Jane, July 1, 2015),..

(350 words)