Riley Tamara, Lovett Raymond, Thandrayen Joanne, Cumming Bonny, Thurber Katherine A
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia.
Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia.
Animals (Basel). 2020 Oct 1;10(10):1790. doi: 10.3390/ani10101790.
This study evaluated a community-driven animal health and management program in the remote community of Wadeye, Northern Territory. This evaluation used a pre-post design to assess changes in animal and human health outcomes over a 12-month period of program implementation, from June 2018 to June 2019. The evaluation assessed the program by comparing animal health outcomes before versus one year after program implementation and comparing human health outcomes before versus during the first 12 months of the program. Outcome measures included the desexing status of dogs and cats, body condition and hair score of dogs, and rates of people presenting to the health clinic for a dog bite. Animal health outcomes significantly improved after program implementation. From pre to post program, there was a 77% increase in the prevalence of good body condition score among dogs and a 9% increase in the prevalence of good hair score among dogs, and the prevalence of desexed dogs and cats more than doubled. There was no significant change in the number of people presenting to the health clinic for a dog bite. Consideration on how to further incorporate human and environmental health aspects into the program could be useful for future One Health programs.
本研究评估了北领地瓦代耶偏远社区一项由社区主导的动物健康与管理项目。该评估采用前后对照设计，以评估在2018年6月至2019年6月项目实施的12个月期间动物和人类健康结果的变化。评估通过比较项目实施前与实施一年后的动物健康结果，以及比较项目前与项目前12个月期间的人类健康结果来评估该项目。结果指标包括狗和猫的绝育状况、狗的身体状况和毛发评分，以及前往健康诊所治疗狗咬伤的人数比例。项目实施后动物健康结果显著改善。从项目前到项目后，狗的良好身体状况评分患病率增加了77%，狗的良好毛发评分患病率增加了9%，绝育狗和猫的患病率增加了一倍多。前往健康诊所治疗狗咬伤的人数没有显著变化。考虑如何将人类和环境卫生方面进一步纳入该项目可能对未来的“同一健康”项目有用。
