Social Vaccine

Social vaccine is a relatively new concept whose meaning and scope has been
evolving. The origin of the concept may have arisen in counseling and psychological
studies that considered self-esteem as a social vaccine, or a dimension of
personality that empowered people and inoculated them against a wide spectrum of
self-defeating and socially undesirable behavior.

A social vaccine is a process of social and political mobilization which leads to

increased government and other institutions willingness to intervene with
interventions, applied to populations rather than individuals, aimed at mitigating
the structural social and economic conditions that make people and communities
vulnerable to disease, illness and trauma.
Social vaccine can be used against most of the diseases,traumas and disorders such
as the following:

Insomnia: Insomnia is a persistent disorder that can make it hard to fall asleep, hard to stay asleep or
both, despite the opportunity for adequate sleep. With insomnia, you usually awaken feeling unrefresed, which
takes a toll on your ability to function during the day. Insomnia can sap not only your energy level and mood but
also your health, work performance and quality of life.Most adults need seven to eight hours a night.
Many adults experience insomnia at some point, but some people have long-term (chronic) insomnia. Insomnia
may be the primary problem, or it may be secondary due to other causes, such as a disease or medication .

Insomnia can be prevented socially.To prevent insomnia for the sake of society we
can arrange seminars.We give lessons about the symptoms of this disease and how
to cure of this disease. Music sometimes helps to prevent insomnia.So society can

arrange festivals where music will be the main attraction.In this way we can use
social vaccine against insomnia.

Hepatitis C:
Hepatitis C is a form of liver inflammation that causes primarily a long-lasting disease. Acute
hepatitis C is rarely observed as the early disease is generally quite mild. Spread mainly by cont
act with infected blood,the hepatitis C virus (HCV) causes most cases of viral liver infection not
due to the A and B hepatitis viruses. In fact,before other viral types were found, hepatitis C was
referred to as "non-A, non-B hepatitis." It is not a new disease.
The hepatitis C form of hepatitis is generally mild in its early, acute stage, but it is much likelier t
han hepatitis B (85%as compared to 10%) to produce chronic liver
disease. Therefore, more than two of every three persons who are
infected by HCV may continue to have the virus in their blood and so become carriers, who can
transmit the infection toothers.The most common way of transmitting hepatitis C is when blood c
ontaining the virus enters another person's circulation
through a break in the skin or the mucosa (inner lining) of the mouth or genitals.
Hepatitis C is one the most dangerous liver disease which may kill thousands of people every
year.We can prevent this acute disease by using social vaccine.People awareness must be
raised immediately.For this we the people in society who are not affected have to work.We can
arrange some sort of campaign about this disease and we can educate people.Rich people can
help those who are not able to provide the money of treatment.Socially we can prevent this
disease.So it is must for us to use social vaccine against this disease.

Reference: www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine