Allepuz Alberto, de Balogh Katinka, Aguanno Ryan, Heilmann Martin, Beltran-Alcrudo Daniel
Departament de Sanitat i Anatomia Animals, Facultat de Veterinària, UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
UAB, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
PLoS One. 2017 Jan 17;12(1):e0169198. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169198. eCollection 2017.
In this study we combined an inventory of the major applications, geographic regions and diseases covered by participatory epidemiology (PE) activities in the field of animal health since 1980, together with an email discussion forum with PE practitioners from different regions of the world. The inventory included the search of peer-reviewed papers, master and technical reports, conference proceedings, manuals, training materials and projects. The search resulted in a low number of PE activity results until the year 2000, followed by a considerable increase (especially from 2012). Most of the identified activities were implemented in Africa and Asia, and focused on surveillance, disease survey and prioritization, and disease control. Seventy-nine PE practitioners working predominantly in Africa, Asia and Europe (29, 22 and 18 respectively) contributed to the email discussion forum. They proposed various modifications to the existing PE definition and discussed different issues related to the applicatoin of PE, its institutionalization for use in policy development, as well as the priorities for future development. The need to increase the number of PE trained people together with some methodological developments and the application of this methodology in developed countries, were some of the points highlighted during the forum. These factors stress the importance of further developing PE as a useful approach for engaging communities in addressing animal and related public health risks.
在本研究中，我们汇总了自1980年以来动物健康领域参与式流行病学（PE）活动所涵盖的主要应用、地理区域和疾病清单，并与来自世界不同地区的PE从业者进行了电子邮件讨论。该清单包括对同行评审论文、硕士和技术报告、会议记录、手册、培训材料及项目的检索。在2000年之前，检索到的PE活动结果数量较少，随后显著增加（尤其是从2012年起）。大多数已确定的活动在非洲和亚洲开展，重点是监测、疾病调查与优先级确定以及疾病控制。79名主要在非洲、亚洲和欧洲工作的PE从业者（分别为29名、22名和18名）参与了电子邮件讨论。他们对现有的PE定义提出了各种修改建议，并讨论了与PE应用、其在政策制定中的制度化使用以及未来发展重点相关的不同问题。论坛期间强调的一些要点包括增加接受PE培训人员数量的必要性、一些方法学的发展以及该方法在发达国家的应用。这些因素凸显了进一步发展PE作为让社区参与应对动物及相关公共卫生风险的有用方法的重要性。
