Course: One Health: Connecting Humans, Animals and the Environment

To check your knowledge on estimating vaccination coverage, think about the problem of ownerless dogs. We can consider the proportion of ownerless dogs as a proportion of the owned dogs …

In October 2012, we worked in Arrondissement 1 in N’Djamena, Chad, vaccinating 835 dogs, 109 cats and five monkeys against rabies. Each vaccinated animal was marked with a blue plastic …

In order to create realistic statistics about the population or number of animals in a certain area, you need to know about the birth and death rate. In case of …

Read the following abstract from a study on joint delivery of human and animal health services by Schelling et al. 2007. Abstract Vaccination services for people and livestock often fail …

As mentioned last week, working with stakeholders and communities is quite essential for a One Health approach in the general sense. On the side of methodology, it is also crucial …

In the video of the previous step we saw that transdisciplinarity research is often done in iterative processes and corkscrew-like research and action strategies. Without a doubt this accounts for …

Working with different expertises is very important. Only when engaging with, for example, stakeholders or local communities, can all the information that is needed be collected. The endeavour, however, is …

Let’s briefly get an overview in the jungle of terms: From disciplinary to transdisciplinary research. We are speaking of disciplinary research, when each discipline uses its set of tools (methodological …

Think of two triangles – taken together they form a parallelogram. One triangle symbolises qualitative research results – the other one quantitative research results. Some time ago at our institute, …

Knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) studies are a way to collect data in a short amount of time. They are questionnaire-based and therefore cost-effective. Often they are used by veterinarians …

Medical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology. It draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology to better understand factors which influence health and well-being. These factors include (see Geertz …

This week you learned how to assess qualitative aspects and discovered socio-cultural dimensions of One Health. You were introduced to the discipline of medical anthropology and learned to differentiate between …

Zoonoses such as anthrax, brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis (bTB) can be prominent health problems among pastoralist groups, such as the Fulbe, in the Sahelian region. These diseases affect their own …