Conclusion

Western medicine has a limited view of the total organism and the true source of disease. Homeostasis is a dynamic sensitive balance of the systems of the body and the body and its environment. According to Illich (1976), the study of the evolution of disease patterns provides ample evidence of the limited effect of medicine on disease control. "Doctors have affected epidemics no more profoundly than did priests during earlier times. Epidemics came and went, imprecated by both but touched by neither.

There is no doubt that a child with a weakened immune system is at greater risk from infectious diseases than a healthy child, but there is no evidence that vaccinations make people healthier, on the contrary it is most likely that we have traded what were normal childhood illnesses 40 years' ago for normal childhood diseases today such as asthma, eczema, and allergies.

Governments all over the world are ignoring the facts and manipulating statistics to support mandatory vaccinations because it's cheaper to vaccinate all children and pay out on some serious side effects, rather than deal with the relevant social and environmental issues that put children at risk in the first place. Mandatory vaccination programmes are a form of social control that helps maintain the social strata within society. "Medical dominance exercise social control on behalf of the ruling class" (Willis 1983) by preventing infectious disease in the inner cities, which would highlight inequalities in society and probably lead to social unrest. This would challenge the domination of society by institutions controlled by those with wealth and power.

Unreformed social and economic structure creates problems, which impose huge cost burdens on the whole of society. As Wilkinson (1998) states, "the real solution is to identify more fundamental changes in society, which incur only the initial cost of making the necessary preventative changes to the institutional structures." Medical science can address the biological pathways involved in disease, but progress in our understanding of health will depend on social research. Developing effective forms of prevention means understanding how social and economic structures affect peoples lives. Their job their income where they live: social and community development finding ways of strengthening the social fabric of society and understanding the bio psychosocial effects of hierarchy and social position. Then at least we may be able to focus on optimising the immune system as a way of dealing with infectious diseases, promoting health and being able to make informed decisions about the kind of health care people want.