Utilisation of one health approaches in the surveillance and mitigation of risks of animal derived infections in Tanzania: attitudinal profiles of human and animal health experts
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Date
2013
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Greener Journal of Medical Sciences
Abstract
Effective detection, identification, monitoring and control of zoonoses and other animal-derived infections call for
embracement of multi- and trans-disciplinary partnership as a means towards optimising the health of humans, animals
and their ecosystems. This study was thus aimed at evaluating attitudinal profiles of human, animal and wildlife health
experts in Ngorongoro (Manyara Region) and Kibaha (Coastal Region) Districts to this partnered arrangement in dealing
with infectious diseases of humans and animals. This was carried out using a structured questionnaire which comprised
a 100-point Likert scale on which <60, 60 and 60< points represented unfavourable, neutral and favourable attitudes
respectively. The questionnaire was administered to 91 medical, veterinary and wildlife experts in July and August 2012.
It was found that, overall, the respondents had positive attitude (64.8%) towards inter-sectoral collaboration. The
proportions of the respondents with unfavourable, neutral and favourable attitudes were 22.0%, 8.8% and 69.2%,
respectively. The scores by the three categories of experts showed no significant difference (F = 1.428, p = 0.248). This
indicates that human and animal health experts value the use of one health approaches in dealing with zoonoses and
other animal-derived infections.
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Infectious diseases, Health approaches, Animal-derived infections, Wildlife health, One health approaches