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Emergency responders and doctors are portrayed in the film with the upmost dedication, skill, and care for life. They were portrayed as the heroes of this disaster.

This study looks at subjects who lived in Fukushima at the time of the nuclear disaster. Specifically those who were under the age of 20 in 2015.

The article uses the historical background of Chernobyl to establish government policies, the analysis of policies pertaining to the healthcare system available to affected population, and narratives of those directly affected by Chernobyl related illnesses. 

-          Initially, it discusses a circular published in 1997, which addresses the problems faced by undocumented immigrants in France and the problems they face getting medical treatment, which eventually went on to turn in to law and improve the welfare of ill illegal residents. This was in the face of many years of increasing laws restricting undocumented resident’s rights in France.

-          Then, it speaks of a specific plight of a French resident from Senegalese, and his request for medical attention, the avenues he had explored to get treatment, how he couldn’t return to his homeland, and how he had, in many ways, given up in the system and was relying on his failing body to arouse compassion from the government.

-          Talks about how the restructuring of the French economy has changed employment needs in France; once, foreign immigrant labor powered the workforce, and made a living through their physical well-being. Now, with the decline of this type of job availability, a change was needed to how the French government deals with illness in foreign residents.

Personal experiences and other research articles from scholars and physicians were used to develop the arguments in this article. 

The data is mainly visualized in a report form. 

It was a movie/interactive site created by a large team of producers funded by these foundaitons: 

Awesome Foundation

Bertha Foundation

Joan Mitchell Foundation

Kindle Project

MacArthur Foundation

North Star Fund

The bibliography for this article included various other articles and papers on global outbreaks and public health. The resources the authors used implies that this article was written in a manner that considered lots of perspectives and research. 

The main point of the article is to show the ethical and enviromental danger inmates face on Riker Island. This is supported by the description heat emergencies that are risking lives of inmates, air pollution in the facility due to methane gas that is being produced by the landfill it was built on, and the shifting in the ground that is leading to cracking, subjecting facilities to flooding during extreme weather.