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Vaccination coverage

Meaning in public health & epidemiology, with examples

nounCommon term

In public health & epidemiology, vaccination coverage means: The percentage of people in a target group who have received a particular vaccine or all the required doses, such as children who had two doses of measles vaccine by age two.

In Turkish: aşılama hızı, aşılama oranı, aşı kapsayıcılığı

How it is used

A core indicator for immunization programmes, also written vaccine coverage or immunization coverage. Coverage can be high, low, falling or patchy, and is reported nationally and by district. 'Uptake' is a near-synonym used in the UK.

Example sentences

  1. Vaccination coverage for the first measles dose fell below 90 percent in some districts.

  2. We mapped vaccination coverage to find pockets of unvaccinated children.

Common collocations

  • high vaccination coverage
  • routine vaccination coverage
  • vaccine uptake
  • improve coverage
  • coverage target
  • vaccinationGiving a vaccine to a person so that their immune system learns to protect them against a specific infectious disease.
  • herd immunityIndirect protection that happens when enough people in a community are immune to an infection, so it cannot spread easily and even unprotected people are less likely to catch it.
  • vaccine hesitancyA delay in accepting, or a refusal of, vaccines even when vaccination services are available, often driven by doubts, mistrust or misinformation.
  • immunization scheduleThe official timetable that sets which vaccines people should receive, at what ages and in how many doses, in a particular country.

More terms: Prevention and Vaccination

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