De Klerk Joanna N, Quan Melvyn, Grewar John D
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; and, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
J S Afr Vet Assoc. 2020 Apr 16;91(0):e1-e11. doi: 10.4102/jsava.v91i0.2009.
In the Cape Flats townships, Cape Town, South Africa, there are more than 250 working cart horses. They serve the community with scrap metal and garden refuse removal, human transport and the selling of goods. A questionnaire was undertaken to understand the social and economic impacts of a horse and cart in the Cape Flats on individual owners and/or drivers, their households and the community. A mixture of classical quantitative questions combined with qualitative participatory technique questions were used. A total of 100 participants took part in the questionnaire, who cart with 163 horses between them. The majority (89%) identified the cart horse income as their primary income source. Apart from the participants, an additional 716 people were supported financially through this income, where the mean number of children supported was 2.9 (95% confidence interval [CI]: ±0.42) per interviewed participant. Scrap metal transportation was the most common work and the season (winter) had a negative impact on their ability to work. The spatial extent to which a cart horses work was determined and related back to the impact on the horse and participant of the survey. It was demonstrated that the cart horse industry had an impact not only on those who worked in the industry, but also on the surrounding residents, either through their work or through supporting others with their income. This study revealed that the concepts of 'One Health' and 'Health in Social-Ecological Systems', in action as horse and human health within the Cape Flats are closely intertwined.
在南非开普敦的开普弗拉茨镇，有250多匹役用马车马。它们为社区提供废旧金属和园林垃圾清理、人员运输以及货物售卖服务。为了解开普弗拉茨地区马车对个体车主和/或车夫、他们的家庭以及社区的社会和经济影响，开展了一项问卷调查。采用了经典定量问题与定性参与式技术问题相结合的方式。共有100名参与者参与了此次问卷调查，他们总共使用163匹马进行拉车工作。大多数人（89%）将拉车马的收入视为主要收入来源。除了这些参与者外，通过这笔收入，还有另外716人在经济上得到支持，每位受访参与者平均供养子女的数量为2.9名（95%置信区间[CI]：±0.42）。废旧金属运输是最常见的工作，而且季节（冬季）对他们的工作能力有负面影响。确定了拉车马的工作空间范围，并将其与对马和调查参与者的影响联系起来。结果表明，拉车马行业不仅对从事该行业的人有影响，而且通过他们的工作或通过用收入支持他人，对周围居民也有影响。这项研究表明，在开普弗拉茨地区，作为马和人类健康体现的“同一健康”和“社会生态系统中的健康”概念紧密相连。
