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The app is used from people with widely ranging medical backgrounds from EMT to Doctor and so many in between and outside of that scope.

Sonja D. Schmid is a professor at Virginia Tech in Northern Virginia. Her studies and research focus on “technology policy, qualitative studies of risk, energy policy, and nuclear nonproliferation” as stated on her directory website for VT. She has been an associate professor since 2011 and her current project, such as the article suggests, is investigating the challenges of globalizing nuclear emergency response. She has many published articles including her most recent publication in Global Forum earlier this year titled “What if there’s a next time? Preparedness after Chernobyl and Fukushima - A European-American response.”

This policy was an expansion of the Social Security Act of 1965 and set clearer guidelines regurding classifications of mentally disabled individuals, and the leaneances set fourth due to their disability. 

A child's perspective would increase the emotional aspect of the film.

The MSF is very active in the production of worker based stories and articles. Workers under the MSF have a "See something, Say something" policy. A current example is The malnutrition currently being assessed in Chad. They have their staff share their stories with the world.  

This article discusses the health and living inequalities faced by individuals housed in Rikers correctional facilities. It discusses that when individuals are housed there they live in subpar conditions with very little representation in legislature. The infrastructure is crumbling and residences prone to flooding. It also touches on the life lived by post-incarceration individiuals. The end tells of the hardships faced by those because it leaves them without a steady home, very little financial assistance, and a sense of self destruction. 

The article uses personal anecdotes from individuals that were there during Katrina and data obtained from the NIH and FEMA.

The article’s argument is supported through statistical analysis of health care services available to citizens and personal anecdotes of physicians and other health care workers that were affected by radiation while providing care. Like much of history, looking at the effects of Chernobyl on government and education formation, can provide many ideas on how to improve the system, and create more options if it has to happen again. 

This article has only been cited in one other paper entitled "Documenting Attacks on Health Workers and Facilities in Armed Conflicts".

This article does not directly address emergency response, but the potential for sexual violence should be noted by responders.