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Flooding fear Question 4

mtebbe

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4. Who are stakeholders, what are their characteristics, and what are their perceptions of the problems?

Some residents of flooded homes in Three Rivers/Woodlake blame new housing developments that replaced orchards and a creek bed for recent flooding

Flooding fear Question 5

mtebbe

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5. What have different stakeholder groups done (or not done) in response to the problems in this setting?

Farmers drove pickup trucks loaded with dirt into a breached levee, then covered the trucks with dirt

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joerene.aviles

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MSF: Pushed to the Limit and Beyond A year into the largest ever Ebola outbreak

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The report was published by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an independent, international medical humanitarian organization. They provide aid and high quality medical care to populations in locations of conflict, disease outbreak, and natural disasters.

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joerene.aviles

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MSF: Pushed to the Limit and Beyond A year into the largest ever Ebola outbreak

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What actors were behind the report? (government ordered report, NGO report, etc.)

The report is an NGO report; MSF has a page for its reports on its website.

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joerene.aviles

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MSF: Pushed to the Limit and Beyond A year into the largest ever Ebola outbreak

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What event/series of events called for this report?

MSF published this report a year after the largest Ebola outbreak that happened in West Africa in 2014.

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joerene.aviles

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MSF: Pushed to the Limit and Beyond A year into the largest ever Ebola outbreak

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What are the components of the report?

The components of the report are a timeline of the ebola outbreak, MSF's actions in response, a conclusion regarding future outbreaks similar to ebola, and a map of the region affected by ebola.

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joerene.aviles

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MSF: Pushed to the Limit and Beyond A year into the largest ever Ebola outbreak

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Over what period were data for the report collected?

Data was collected since the beginning of the ebola outbreak in 2014 till sometime in 2015 before the article was published.

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joerene.aviles

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MSF: Pushed to the Limit and Beyond A year into the largest ever Ebola outbreak

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How does the report address matters of disaster and health?

The report addresses how strained public health infrastructures can get in the face of large scale epidemics like in the ebola outbreak. It analyzes the responses of local government, health care workers, and MSF in the ebola outbreak, discussing what could have been done to prevent the spread and severity of the disease.