underimmunization

noun

inadequate immunization

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Meanings

noununderimmunization (usually uncountable, plural underimmunizations)

plural underimmunizations

  1. uncountableusuallyinadequate immunization

    Vaccine shortages, which occur intermittently, also contribute to underimmunizations or delayed immunizations by missed opportunities.

    2015, Earnestine Willis, Pediatric Prevention, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics, →ISBN, page 1097
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    A strength of this study is that it synthesizes the complexity of the different layers of the influence of gender on immunization in childhood, and it could show that the mechanisms, how gender inequality contributes to underimmunization, are more complex than commonly assumed.

    2015 August 29, “Gender Determinants of Vaccination Status in Children: Evidence from a Meta-Ethnographic Systematic Review”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From under- + immunization.

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