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The multiple burdens of zoonotic disease and an ecohealth approach to their assessment

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Title The multiple burdens of zoonotic disease and an ecohealth approach to their assessment
 
Creator Grace, Delia
Gilbert, J.
Randolph, Thomas F.
Kang'ethe, Erastus K.
 
Subject animal health
zoonoses
health
 
Description Zoonoses occur at the interface of human and animal disease and partly because their impact and management fall across two sectors they are often neglected. The Global Burden of Disease captures the impact of zoonoses on human health in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). Based on this, we estimate that in low income countries, zoonoses and diseases which recently emerged from animals make up 26 % of the DALYs lost to infectious disease and 10 % of the total DALYs lost. In contrast, in high income countries, zoonoses and diseases recently which emerged from animals represent less than 1 % of DALYs lost to infectious disease and only 0.02 % of the total disease burden. We present a framework that captures the costs of zoonoses and emerging disease to human, animal and ecosystem health in terms of cost of treatment, cost of prevention, health burden and intangible and opportunity costs. We also discuss how ecohealth concepts of transdisciplinarity, participation and equity can help in assessing the importance of zoonoses in developing countries and illustrate these with an example of assessing milk-borne disease.
 
Date 2012-09
2012-08-24T20:01:20Z
2012-08-24T20:01:20Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Grace, D., Gilbert, J., Randolph, T. and Kang’ethe, E. 2012. The multiple burdens of zoonotic disease and an ecohealth approach to their assessment. Tropical Animal Health and Production 44(Suppl 1): S67-S73.
0049-4747
1573-7438
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/21697
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-012-0209-y
 
Language en
 
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Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source Tropical Animal Health and Production