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zero-dose

zero-dose adjective: failing to receive any routine vaccination; having received no doses of a particular vaccine.

Adjective

zero-dose (not comparable)

  1. Failing to receive any routine vaccination; having received no doses of a particular vaccine.
    • To do this, it is important to update existing estimates of the frequency of zero-dose children in countries with recent data. Next, there is a need to understand how children move out of the zero-dose group towards full immunisation.2021 July 22, Bianca O. Cata-Preta, Thiago M. Santos, Tewodaj Mengistu, Daniel R. Hogan, Aluisio J.D. Barros, Cesar G. Victora, “Zero-dose children and the immunisation cascade: Understanding...
    • Before the vaccination campaign, 17.3% of children under 9 months were DTP zero-dose and 4.3% of children 9–60 months were measles zero-dose.2021 December 30, Rohan Arambepola, Yangyupei Yang, Kyle Hutchinson, Francis Dien Mwansa, Julie Ann Doherty, Frazer Bwalya, Phillimon Ndubani, Gloria Musukwa, William John Moss, Amy Wesolowski1...

Examples of zero-dose in a sentence

  • Over a 24-year period in India, child zero-dose status was shaped by large-scale social inequalities and remained a consistent marker of generalised vulnerability.2021 December, Mira Johri, Sunil Rajpal, S V Subramanian, [], “Progress in reaching unvaccinated (zero-dose) children in India, 1992–2016...
  • One in five children worldwide are now zero-dose or under-vaccinated, meaning they’ve missed out entirely or partially on routine immunization.2023 April, “The State of the World’s Children 2023”, in UNICEF, archived from the original on 04 May 2024:
  • There are so many children coming here who are zero-dose,” says Nelson, referring to children who have not received their first diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine (DTP1).2023 May 23, “Zero-dose children in Angola are being protected through a nationwide vaccination campaign”, in UNICEF, archived from the...

Questions about zero-dose

What does zero-dose mean?
Zero-dose means failing to receive any routine vaccination; having received no doses of a particular vaccine.
How do you use zero-dose in a sentence?
Over a 24-year period in India, child zero-dose status was shaped by large-scale social inequalities and remained a consistent marker of generalised vulnerability.
What part of speech is zero-dose?
Zero-dose is an adjective.

Words near zero-dose in the dictionary

  1. zero-derives
  2. zero-deriving
  3. zero-dimensional
  4. zero-dimensional chess
  5. zero-dimensionally
  6. zero-dose
  7. zero-edge pool
  8. zero-edge pools
  9. zero-emission
  10. zero-emission vehicle
  11. zero-emission vehicles

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