Why are school immunization requirements needed? 1. School immunization requirements assure children are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases. â¢ Ohio schools first allowed to require smallpox vaccine in 1872 â¢ In 1959, Ohio added a detailed requirement for smallpox, polio and DTP vaccines
Altruism is one aspect of what social psychologists refer to as prosocial behavior. Prosocial behavior refers to any action that benefits other people, no matter what the motive or how the giver benefits from the action. Remember, however, that pure altruism involves true selflessness.
In biology, altruism refers to behaviour by an individual that increases the fitness of another individual while decreasing the fitness of the actor. Altruism in this sense is different from the philosophical concept of altruism, in which an action would only be called altruistic if it was done with the conscious intention of helping another. In the behavioural sense, there is no such requirement.