Table 2.
Topics selected for presentation to the communities and questions used to gather qualitative data during focus groups and structured interviews carried out in 23 rural communities in Southern Bolivia, June–October 2010.
| Topic | Questions asked |
|---|---|
| Frequency and reasons of OVS visiting the community | • It seems that OVS visit some communities more than others; do you think this is accurate? |
| • Why do you think this happens? | |
| • What is the situation in this community? | |
| • Would it be positive for the community if this changed? | |
| Awareness of noticeable diseases | • Why do you think the majority have heard about Foot and Mouth disease but far less people know about classical swine fever? |
| • Do you think is true that there is no rabies or Foot and Mouth disease in the central valley, Andean and Sub-Andean zones? | |
| Actions towards a disease with high mortality rate | • How would you interpret that in some zones animal owners give notice to a veterinarian and in other zones to animal health workers? |
| • Which might be the reasons for those differences? | |
| • Why do you think that only few people would be willing to give notice to the OVS? | |
| • What would people normally do in this community? | |
| Actions towards incursion of an emerging disease in the household | • How would you interpret that in these situations animal owners in some zones give notice to the rest of the community and in other zones each household deal with it by themselves? |
| • What are the reasons for those differences? | |
| • What do people normally do in this community? | |
| • Why do you think that only few people would be willing to give notice to the OVS? | |