Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance, Centre for Preventive Medicine, Animal Health Trust, UK.
Equine Vet J. 2011 May;43(3):372-5. doi: 10.1111/j.2042-3306.2010.00186.x. Epub 2010 Sep 23.
Detailed knowledge of horse populations can better facilitate effective control of equine diseases. Preliminary studies were undertaken to ascertain the type of information held on the UK's National Equine Database (NED) and to determine the geographical resolution at which mandatorily recorded owner addresses might be a suitable proxy for predicting horse locations. Results indicated that relatively few UK passport-issuing organisations requested details of where horses were kept in addition to owner address details. Examination of data on 1440 horses held on an Animal Health Trust syndromic surveillance database showed that 90% of them were kept within 10 km of their owners. While owner location may provide an indication of where most horses are kept, further work is also needed to evaluate the usefulness of NED as an epidemiological resource in future equine disease control measures.
详细了解马群情况可以更好地促进马属动物疾病的有效防控。本研究旨在确定英国国家马数据库（NED）保存的信息类型，并确定强制性记录的马主地址的地理分辨率是否可以作为预测马属动物位置的合适替代指标。结果表明，除了马主地址详细信息外，相对较少的英国护照发放机构要求提供马匹饲养地点的详细信息。对动物健康信托综合征监测数据库中 1440 匹马的数据进行检查，结果显示 90%的马匹被饲养在距离其马主 10 公里以内的地方。虽然马主位置可能表明大多数马匹的饲养地点，但还需要进一步研究来评估 NED 在未来马属动物疾病防控措施中作为流行病学资源的有用性。
