Multiple burdens of zoonotic disease and an ecohealth approach to their assessment

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dc.contributor.authorGrace, Delia
dc.contributor.authorGilbert, Jeff
dc.contributor.authorRandolph, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorKang’ethe, Erastus
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-08T19:51:23Z
dc.date.available2012-09-08T19:51:23Z
dc.date.copyright2012
dc.date.issued2012-08
dc.descriptionThis paper is part of a special supplement on assessing and managing urban zoonoses and food-borne disease in two African cities (Nairobi, Kenya and Ibadan, Nigeria).en
dc.description.abstractZoonoses 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.en
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dc.identifier.citationGrace, D., Gilbert, J., Randolph, T., & Kang’ethe, E. (2012). The multiple burdens of zoonotic disease and an ecohealth approach to their assessment. Tropical Animal Health and Production, SI.doi:10.1007/s11250-012-0209-yen
dc.identifier.issn0049-4747
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10625/50253
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.journalTropical Animal Health and Production
dc.subjectECOHEALTHen
dc.subjectZOONOSESen
dc.subjectDISEASE BURDENen
dc.subjectPRIORITISATIONen
dc.subjectKENYAen
dc.subjectURBAN DAIRY PRODUCTIONen
dc.subjectCRYPTOSPORIDIUMen
dc.subjectFOOD BORNE DISEASEen
dc.subjectDISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEARSen
dc.subjectHEALTH COSTSen
dc.subjectZOONOTIC DISEASESen
dc.titleMultiple burdens of zoonotic disease and an ecohealth approach to their assessmenten
dc.typeJournal Article (peer-reviewed)en
idrc.copyright.holderSpringer Science+Business Media B.V.
idrc.dspace.accessIDRC Onlyen
idrc.noaccessDue to copyright restrictions the full text of this research output is not available in the IDRC Digital Library or by request from the IDRC Library. / Compte tenu des restrictions relatives au droit d'auteur, le texte intégral de cet extrant de recherche n'est pas accessible dans la Bibliothèque numérique du CRDI, et il n'est pas possible d'en faire la demande à la Bibliothéque du CRDI.en
idrc.project.componentnumber103075001
idrc.project.number103075
idrc.project.titleHealth Risk Analysis of Cryptosporidiosis and other Hazards in Urban Smallholder Dairy Production (Kenya)en
idrc.rims.adhocgroupIDRC SUPPORTEDen

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