underimmunization

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ immunization.

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Noun

underimmunization (usually uncountable, plural underimmunizations)

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

     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, Earnestine Willis, Pediatric Prevention, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics, →ISBN, page 1097:

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