National animal health surveillance: Return on investment

Scott, Aaron E.; Forsythe, Kenneth W.; Johnson, Cynthia

doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.01.007

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“…A transdisciplinary approach utilizing health trend and anomaly data, for example, combines a broad set of knowledges in order to provide early warnings that might otherwise be missed. This nonpathogen specific surveillance relies on "producers, animal health technicians, and veterinarians [as well as slaughter personnel and laboratory scientists] that directly observe animals on an ongoing basis" (Scott et al, 2012) to participate in disease surveillance. System specificity emerges in this case not through pathogen specificity but through the multiple reading and corroboration of often subtle signs within a variety of spaces and settings.…”

Section: Surveillance For Influenzamentioning

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More than one world, more than one health: Re-configuring interspecies health

Hinchliffe

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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'One World One Health' (OWOH), 'One Medicine' and 'One Health' are all injunctions to work across the domains of veterinary, human and environmental health. In large part they are institutional responses to growing concerns regarding shared health risks at the human, animal and environmental interfaces. Although these efforts to work across disciplinary boundaries are welcome, there are also risks in seeking unity, not least the tendency of one health visions to reduce diversity and to under-value the local, contingent and practical engagements that make health possible. This paper uses insights from Geography and Science and Technology Studies along with multi-sited and multi-species qualitative fieldwork on animal livestock and zoonotic influenzas in the UK, to highlight the importance of those practical engagements. After an introduction to one health, I argue that there is a tendency in OWOH visions to focus on contamination and transmission of pathogens rather than the socio-economic configuration of disease and health, and this tendency conforms to or performs what sociologist John Law calls a one world metaphysics. Following this, three related field cases are used to demonstrate that health is dependent upon a patchwork of practices, and is configured in practice by skilled people, animals, micro-organisms and their social relations. From surveillance for influenza viruses to tending animals, good health it turns out is dependent on an ability to construct common sense from a complex of signs, responses and actions. It takes, in other words, more than one world to make healthy outcomes. In light of this, the paper aims to, first, loosen any association between OWOH and a one world-ist metaphysics, and, second, to radicalize the inter-disciplinary foundations of OWOH by both widening the scope of disciplinarity as well as attending to how different knowledges are brought together.

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More than one world, more than one health: Re-configuring interspecies health

Hinchliffe

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Animal health surveillance has been defined as "the systemic collection, collation, analysis, interpretation and timely dissemination of animal and welfare data from defined populations" (7). Helping to maintain and enhance export markets is one of the main roles of animal health surveillance and prioritizing surveillance activities is critical to maximize the use of available resources (8). Resources (both financial and human) are limited; therefore, it is necessary to invest in surveillance activities that are of priority and de-emphasize those that no longer add value (9).…”

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Development and Application of a Prioritization Tool for Animal Health Surveillance Activities in Ireland

Clarke

Maher

et al. 2020

Front. Vet. Sci.

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Decisions around animal health management by stakeholders are often subject to resource limitation, therefore prioritization processes are required to evaluate whether effort is attributed appropriately. The objectives of this study were to develop and apply a surveillance prioritization process for animal health surveillance activities in Ireland. An exploratory sequential mixed research methods design was utilized. A prioritization tool was developed for surveillance activities and implemented over two phases. During the first phase, a survey was conducted which asked stakeholders to prioritize diseases/conditions by importance for Irish agriculture. In the second phase, experts identified the most important surveillance objectives, and allocated resources to the activities that they considered would best meet the surveillance objectives, for each disease/condition. This study developed a process and an accompanying user-friendly practical tool for animal disease surveillance prioritization which could be utilized by other competent authorities/governments. Antimicrobial resistance and bovine tuberculosis were ranked top of the endemic diseases/conditions in the Irish context, while African swine fever and foot and mouth disease were ranked top of the exotic diseases/conditions by the stakeholders. The study showed that for most of the diseases/conditions examined in the prioritization exercise, the respondents indicated a preference for a combination of active and passive surveillance activities. Future extensions of the tool could include prioritization on a per species basis.

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“…However, these factors have not yet been integrated within an economic evaluation framework. Indeed, current models of cost–benefit and cost‐effectiveness analysis of passive surveillance systems (Scott et al., ) only account for monetary components. To allow for this integration, valuation methods for non‐monetary costs and benefits (i.e.…”

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The Perceived Value of Passive Animal Health Surveillance: The Case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Vietnam

Delabouglise

Antoine‐Moussiaux

Phan

et al. 2015

Zoonoses and Public Health

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SummaryEconomic evaluations are critical for the assessment of the efficiency and sustainability of animal health surveillance systems and the improvement of their efficiency. Methods identifying and quantifying costs and benefits incurred by public and private actors of passive surveillance systems (i.e. actors of veterinary authorities and private actors who may report clinical signs) are needed. This study presents the evaluation of perceived costs and benefits of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) passive surveillance in Vietnam. Surveys based on participatory epidemiology methods were conducted in three provinces in Vietnam to collect data on costs and benefits resulting from the reporting of HPAI suspicions to veterinary authorities. A quantitative tool based on stated preference methods and participatory techniques was developed and applied to assess the non‐monetary costs and benefits. The study showed that poultry farmers are facing several options regarding the management of HPAI suspicions, besides reporting the following: treatment, sale or destruction of animals. The option of reporting was associated with uncertain outcome and transaction costs. Besides, actors anticipated the release of health information to cause a drop of markets prices. This cost was relevant at all levels, including farmers, veterinary authorities and private actors of the upstream sector (feed, chicks and medicine supply). One benefit associated with passive surveillance was the intervention of public services to clean farms and the environment to limit the disease spread. Private actors of the poultry sector valued information on HPAI suspicions (perceived as a non‐monetary benefit) which was mainly obtained from other private actors and media.

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National animal health surveillance: Return on investment

Cited by 4 publications

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More than one world, more than one health: Re-configuring interspecies health

More than one world, more than one health: Re-configuring interspecies health

Development and Application of a Prioritization Tool for Animal Health Surveillance Activities in Ireland

The Perceived Value of Passive Animal Health Surveillance: The Case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Vietnam

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