Synergy between public health and veterinary services to deliver human and animal health interventions in rural low income settings
| العنوان: | Synergy between public health and veterinary services to deliver human and animal health interventions in rural low income settings |
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| المؤلفون: | Jakob Zinsstag, Kaspar Wyss, Esther Schelling, M. Bechir, Daugla Doumagoum Moto |
| المصدر: | BMJ. 331:1264-1267 |
| بيانات النشر: | BMJ, 2005. |
| سنة النشر: | 2005 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Interprofessional Relations, Rural Health, Education and Debate, Poverty Areas, Health care, Humans, Medicine, Health policy, General Environmental Science, Transients and Migrants, Poverty, business.industry, Communication, Rural health, Public health, Vaccination, General Engineering, International health, General Medicine, Health promotion, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Health education, business, Delivery of Health Care, Public Health Administration |
| الوصف: | Rural African communities, especially those that are nomadic, often have poor access to health care. Collaboration with other services could help improve coverage Livestock contribute to the livelihood of at least 70% of the worlds' rural poor.1 In arid and semi-arid ecosystems of sub-Saharan Africa, livestock holders (mobile or settled pastoralists and agro-pastoralists) use vast grazing lands and residuals of crops that otherwise could not be used productively2 Yet, they are marginalised from development processes and vulnerable to exclusion from health services because of their geographical, social, and cultural environment. The weak infrastructure and quality of service in both the public health and veterinary sectors are closely related to resource constraints, especially lack of qualified staff.3 4 Therefore, professionals from the World Health Organisation and UN Food and Agriculture Organisation have suggested that public health and veterinary services should share resources.5 6 Few experiences of joint delivery of services to pastoral communities have been documented.7 We describe the implementation and effects of a joint project in Chad Veterinary services have a crucial role in controlling highly contagious diseases and zoonotic infections, which have implications for human health as well as that of livestock. However, in many contexts veterinary services could also contribute to the provision of essential public health interventions. This is particularly important in areas with unacceptably low health service coverage, as is often the case in rural settings of low income countries. One example of collaboration between public health and veterinary services is in providing child vaccination, one of the most cost effective health interventions, in developing countries.8 In southern Sudan, the Expanded Programme on Immunization shared cold chain equipment with the veterinary service,7 and the International Red Cross has implemented vaccination campaigns using veterinarians' vehicles (B Peterhans, personal communication). Similar … |
| تدمد: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::8c7dae01f423b798f3511866060c979dTest https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7527.1264Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....8c7dae01f423b798f3511866060c979d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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