pro-vaccination

See also: provaccination

English

Alternative forms

• provaccination

Etymology

From pro- +‎ vaccination.

Adjective

pro-vaccination (not comparable)

1. Supporting vaccines and vaccination.

   Synonyms: pro-vaccine, (slang) pro-vax, pro-vaxxing

   Antonym: anti-vaccination

   • 2018, Erika Allen Wolters, Brent S. Steel, When Ideology Trumps Science: Why We Question the Experts on Everything from Climate Change to Vaccinations, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 76:

     We argued above that provaccination advocates would be more likely to use scientific studies and evidence of VPDs when compared to antivaccination advocates. While we did not assess the types of information sources people use for this issue, those with high levels of belief in vaccinations would at least be more open to the scientific literature on this topic.

   • 2020 May 13, Kevin Roose, “Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The study, which mapped the vaccine conversation on Facebook during the 2019 measles outbreak, found that there were nearly three times as many active anti-vaccination communities as pro-vaccination communities. In addition, they found that while pro-vaccine pages tended to have more followers, anti-vaccine pages were faster-growing.

Related terms

• pro-vaccinationist
• pro-vaxxer