Your Child's Immunizations rotecting your child from disease may be the most important thing you can do for her health. What Parents Need to Know Immunizations Are Safe. Vaccines are perhaps the biggest success story of public health. Vaccines have wiped out major diseases such as smallpox and helped control measles, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria and others.
Immunizations Are Necessary.
Until a disease is completely erased, as smallpox is, it can come back if people are not immunized. All About . . . During the 20th century, vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood disease, protecting babies and children from illnesses that once sickened, maimed and killed thousands across the country. The immunization schedule is complex and hard to remember so keep a record. The department of Community Health Development and Advocacy of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta provides these resources to parents and caregivers as part of its mission to improve the health and well-being of children.