ecohealth is a comprehensive approach to understanding health at its human,animal and environmental interface in a socio-ecological systems context.This approach was introduced widely in Southeast Asia(SEA)by the Cana...
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ecohealth is a comprehensive approach to understanding health at its human,animal and environmental interface in a socio-ecological systems context.This approach was introduced widely in Southeast Asia(SEA)by the Canadian International Development Research Centre(IDRC)in the late 2000s.Aimed at addressing the problem of emerging infectious diseases(EIDs),numerous such projects and activities have been generated throughout the region.ecohealth is increasingly converging with the One Health approach,as both movements emphasise a holistic understanding to health.We conducted a scoping review by considering all of the ecohealth programmes,initiatives and projects that have been implemented in SEA since the introduction of the approach,and also gathered information from peer-reviewed literature.The objective of this paper is to review ecohealth activities within SEA over the last 10 years to address the lessons learned,challenges faced and the way forward for ecohealth in the region.Activities range from those focusing purely on capacity,projects focusing on research and projects covering both.Achievements to date include,for example,research contributing to the field of infectious diseases in relation to social ecological factors and associated urbanisation and agricultural intensification.Challenges remain at the project design and implementation level,in the available capacity and coordination to develop ecohealth research teams in the countries,gauging teams’assimilation of ecohealth’s underlying tenets and their translation into sustainable disease prevention and control,as well as in the ability to scale up ecohealth projects.We suggest that the way forward for ecohealth should be from a regional perspective in terms of research,training and policy translation using ecohealth in combination with the One Health approach.
Background:Poultry production cluster(PPC)programs are key strategies in many Asian countries to engage small commercial poultry producers in high-value production chains and to control infectious poultry diseases.Thi...
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Background:Poultry production cluster(PPC)programs are key strategies in many Asian countries to engage small commercial poultry producers in high-value production chains and to control infectious poultry diseases.This study assessed the multiple impacts of PPCs through a transdisciplinary ecohealth approach in four Asian countries,and drew the implications for small producers to improve their livelihoods and reduce the risk of spreading infectious diseases in the poultry sector.Methods:The data collection combined both quantitative and qualitative methods.It comprised:formal structured household survey questionnaires,measuring the biosecurity level of poultry farms with a biosecurity score card;and key informant interviews.Descriptive statistics were used to process the quantitative data and a content analysis was used to process the qualitative data.Results:This research found that poultry farms in clusters do not necessarily have better economic performance than those outside PPCs.Many farmers in PPCs only consider them to be an advantage for expanding the scale of their poultry operations and improving household incomes,and they are less concerned about-and have limited capacities to-enhancing biosecurity and environmental management.We measured the biosecurity level of farms in PPCs through a 14-item checklist and found that biosecurity is generally very low across all sample sites.The increased flies,mosquitoes,rats,and smells in and around PPCs not only pollute the environment,but also cause social conflicts with the surrounding communities.Conclusion:This research concluded that a poultry cluster,mainly driven by economic objectives,is not necessarily a superior model for the control of infectious diseases.The level of biosecurity in PPCs was found to be low.Given the intensity of poultry operations in PPCs(farms are densely packed into clusters),and the close proximity to residential areas of some PPCs,the risk of spreading infectious diseases,in fact,increases.Good management and collective action for i
Background:To date,research has shown an increasing use of the term“ecohealth”in literature,but few researchers have explicitly described how it has been used.We investigated a project on health and environmental sa...
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Background:To date,research has shown an increasing use of the term“ecohealth”in literature,but few researchers have explicitly described how it has been used.We investigated a project on health and environmental sanitation(the conceptual framework of which included the pillars of ecohealth)to identify the impediments and enablers of ecohealth and investigate how it can move from concept to practice.Methods:A case study approach was used.The interview questions were centred on the nature of interactions and the sharing of information between stakeholders.Results:The analysis identified nine impediments and 15 enablers of ecohealth.Three themes relating to impediments,in particular-integration is not clear,don’t understand,and limited participation-related more directly to the challenges in applying the ecohealth pillars of transdisciplinarity and participation.The themes relating to enablers-awareness and understanding,capacity development,and interactions-facilitated usage of the research results.By extracting information on the environmental,social,economic,and health aspects of environmental sanitation,we found that the issue spanned multiple scales and sectors.Conclusion:The challenge of how to integrate these aspects should be considered at the design stage and throughout the research process.We recommend that ecohealth research teams include a self-investigation of their processes in order to facilitate a comparison of moving from concept to practice,which may offer insights into how to evaluate the process.
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