zero-dose

English

Adjective

zero-dose (not comparable)

1. (healthcare, of children) Failing to receive any routine vaccination; having received no doses of a particular vaccine.

   Hypernym: unvaccinated

   • 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 immunisation pathways in low and middle-income countries”, in Vaccine, volume 39, number 32, →DOI, pages 4564-4570:

     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 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, Simon Mutembo, “Using geospatial models to map zero-dose children: factors associated with zero-dose vaccination status before and after a mass measles and rubella vaccination campaign in Southern province, Zambia”, in BMJ Global Health, volume 6, number 12, →DOI:

     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, Mira Johri, Sunil Rajpal, S V Subramanian, , “Progress in reaching unvaccinated (zero-dose) children in India, 1992–2016: a multilevel, geospatial analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys”, in The Lancet Global Health, volume 9, number 12, →DOI, pages 1697-1706:

     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. Interventions that address this cycle of intergenerational inequities should be prioritised.

   • 2023 April, “The State of the World’s Children 2023”, in UNICEF‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-05-04:

     One in five children worldwide are now zero-dose or under-vaccinated, meaning they’ve missed out entirely or partially on routine immunization. Those are levels we’ve not seen since 2008.

   • 2023 May 23, “Zero-dose children in Angola are being protected through a nationwide vaccination campaign”, in UNICEF‎^[2], archived from the original on 2024-05-15:

     “We normally vaccinate between 200 to 300 people per day. 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).

See also

• undervaccinated
• unvaccinated