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. 2023 Sep 19:10:1168649.
doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1168649. eCollection 2023.

Livestock health and disease economics: a scoping review of selected literature

Alexander Kappes  1   2 , Takesure Tozooneyi  3 , Golam Shakil  2 , Ashley F Railey  4 , K Marie McIntyre  5 , Dianne E Mayberry  6 , Jonathan Rushton  7 , Dustin L Pendell  3 , Thomas L Marsh  2
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Livestock health and disease economics: a scoping review of selected literature

Alexander Kappes et al. Front Vet Sci. .

Abstract

Animal diseases in production and subsistence environments have the potential to negatively affect consumers, producers, and economies as a whole. A growing global demand for animal sourced food requires safe and efficient production systems. Understanding the burden of animal disease and the distribution of burden throughout a value chain informs policy that promotes safe consumption and efficient markets, as well as providing more effective pathways for investment. This paper surveys existing knowledge on the burden of animal disease across economic categories of production, prevention and treatment, animal welfare, and trade and regulation. Our scoping review covers 192 papers across peer-reviewed journals and reports published by organizations. We find there exists a gap in knowledge in evaluating what the global burdens of animal diseases are and how these burdens are distributed in value chains. We also point to a need for creating an analytical framework based on established methods that guides future evaluation of animal disease burden, which will provide improved access to information on animal health impacts.

Keywords: animal health economics; consumer demand; global burden of animal disease; livestock production; trade and regulations.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The handling editor BH declared a past co-authorship with the author JR and declared a shared research network [Network for Ecohealth and One Health, NEOH–European chapter of Ecohealth International association] with the author KM.

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Article selection for the study’s scoping literature review.
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