Mandatory Vaccines Will Not Ease Fears by Dallas Ducar

“…This means that this community, along with others in the United States, has lower vaccination rates than countries suffering from extreme poverty and civil war. The “personal belief exemption” laws differ from “religious exemptions.” …”
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Evaluation of the Performance of world Countries' Health Systems in the Face of Covid-19 in Respect of Vaccination Role by Nadia Sadrmomtaz, Majid Khedmati, Ardavan Babaei

“…In the first phase, the countries were clustered using the k-means algorithm, in the second phase, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) model was implemented once on the clusters and then on all the countries without considering the clusters, and in the third phase, after presentation of the concept of resilience in the Covid-19 era, an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model was implemented with three criteria, including the results of data envelopment analysis model without considering the clusters, the results of data envelopment analysis model considering the clusters and the resilience, and then the ranking of the countries' performance in the face of Covid-19 was provided.Based on the studies and analyses, the total number of corona deaths, the percentage of extreme poverty in the community, the CVD death rate, the percentage of the diabetes prevalence, the percentage of female smokers, the percentage of male smokers, stringency index, and the total number of patients with Covid-19 were selected as input parameters, while the total number of vaccinations, the total number of corona tests, population, the number of hospital beds, and GDP were selected as output parameters.After removing the countries with missing data, 88 countries remained which were analyzed in the three-phase method. …”
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Views of childhood and knowledge of children by Elizabeth Henning

“…In South Africa there are children who come to school, well prepared for the demands of school – and there are others who come with only their survival records in homes of extreme poverty, of absent parents and of families broken by the effects of the history of the nation and the effects of disease. …”
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Time’s Up by Jennifer Paul Cohen

“…Note that in areas that still suffer from extreme poverty, as in Sub-Saharan Africa, life expectancy remains low at between 40-50 years. …”
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Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Multinational Security Cooperation in Central Asia by Rouben Azizian, Elizabeth Van Wie Davis

“…On 22-24 February 2006, the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) held this conference on the complex security environment of Central Asia as the region continues to struggle with the phenomena of terrorism and religious extremism, poverty and corruption, political instability and authoritarian governance, as well as great power (China, Russia, and the United States) suspicion and rivalry. …”
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An investigative journalism perspective on tobacco control in Tanzania by Mashaka Bonifas Mgeta

“…Poverty: Tobacco farmers live in an extremely poverty as the value chain not on their side, favors tobacco companies. …”
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