Community based animal health delivery systems: improving the quality of veterinary service delivery
2002
T. Leyland | A. Catley
This paper aims to give a brief introduction to community-based animal health workers (CAHW). It refers to sources of more detailed information not only on how quality community-based animal health worker systems can be established and on CAHW issues that veterinary policy makers should consider in order to improve the quality of veterinary services in the developing world.The authors discuss how community-based animal health delivery systems can make a valuable contribution to improving veterinary services using a number of case study examples. The paper describes how this contribution is primarily achieved through improved linkages between veterinary authorities and livestock owners, which results inprovision of privatised clinical services to livestock ownersimproved use of veterinary pharmaceuticalsthe efficient delivery of sanitary mandate tasks such as vaccination campaignsdisease surveillance and other aspects of epizootic disease controlFinally some steps that veterinary administrations and authorities may consider in order to allow community-based animal health delivery systems to deliver these improvements, in a regulated manner, are highlighted.
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