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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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What implications does the report have for technical professionals?

The report implies that technical professionals have to be more careful when responding to large scale disasters; staff responding to emergencies need to have more training for the many internal challenges that would lmit care and assistance to victims. MSF discussed how they had limited man power, labs, and resources.

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Who published the report?

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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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.

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joerene.aviles

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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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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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Describe how this report has traveled. Has it been used in news reports, cited by health officials, or used as the basis of other studies?

The report is cited in news articles and other studies about the ebola outbreak; some of the studies I found on Google Scholar were:

http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S0256-95742015001200008&script=…

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4508539/

https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1299…

http://search.proquest.com/docview/1736922875?pq-origsite=gscholar

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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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How the report brings people/organisation to face the hiding problem and improve?

The report has several small sections dedicated to possible ways the MSF could have responded better to the 2014 ebola outbreak; such as the medical challenges they faced, MSF challenges within the organization, and a "Looking to the future" about the importance of learning lessons from this epidemic.