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

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,...

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Autores principales: Grace, Delia, Gilbert, Jeffrey, Randolph, Thomas F., Kang'ethe, Erastus K.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Springer 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/21697
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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.
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spelling CGSpace216972024-08-27T10:35:12Z The multiple burdens of zoonotic disease and an ecohealth approach to their assessment Grace, Delia Gilbert, Jeffrey Randolph, Thomas F. Kang'ethe, Erastus K. animal health zoonoses health 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. 2012-09 2012-08-24T20:01:20Z 2012-08-24T20:01:20Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/21697 en Limited Access Springer 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.
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