The socioeconomic effects of livestock disease and the role of animal health economics: Cases from the Philippines, Madagascar, and Vietnam
2016
Kono, H. (Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (Japan). Department of Animal and Food Hygiene)
The present study considers the socioeconomic effects of livestock disease, the usefulness of animal health economics in mitigating poverty associated with livestock disease, and the issues related to this aspect of animal health economics based on the application of economics in three real-world cases : foot-and-mouth disease in the Philippines, African swine fever in Madagascar, and livestock insurance in Vietnam. Animal health economics can be considered an analytical tool that focuses primarily on human economic behaviors related to the problem of livestock disease. As the present paper demonstrates, we anticipate the application of various economic analysis techniques to the problems arising from livestock disease. Collaboration between veterinary epidemiology, which studies the emergence of diseases in groups of animals (as well as animal behavior), and economics (an integrated discipline known as animal health economics) can be anticipated to produce more effective measures for controlling infectious diseases among livestock.
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