Loaiza Jose R, Gittens Rolando A, Zapata Robinson, Armien Blas, González-Santamaría José, Laporta Gabriel Z, Franco Leticia
Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología (INDICASAT AIP), Panama.
Programa Centroamericano de Maestría en Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, Panama.
Dialogues Health. 2023 Feb 24;2:100117. doi: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100117. eCollection 2023 Dec.
This work aims to analyze the landscape of scientific publications on subjects related to One Health and infectious diseases in Panama. The research questions are:
Boolean searches on the Web of Science, SCOPUS and PubMed were undertaken to evaluate the main trends of publications related to One Health and infectious disease research in the country of Panama, between 1990 and 2019.
4546 publications were identified since 1990, including 3564 peer-reviewed articles interconnected with One Health related descriptors, and 211 articles focused particularly on infectious diseases. A pattern of exponential growth in the number of publications with various contributions from Panamanian institutions was observed. The rate of multidisciplinary research was moderate, whereas those of interinstitutional and intersectoral research ranged from low to very low. Research efforts have centered largely on protozoan, neglected and arthropod-borne diseases with a strong emphasis on malaria, Chagas and leishmaniasis.
Panama has scientific capabilities on One Health to tackle future infectious disease threats, but the official collaboration schemes and strategic investment to develop further competencies need to be conciliated with modern times, aka the pandemics era. The main proposition here, addressed to the government of Panama, is to launch a One Health regional center to promote multidisciplinary, interinstitutional and intersectoral research activities in Panama and beyond.
本研究旨在分析巴拿马关于“同一个健康”与传染病相关主题的科学出版物情况。研究问题如下：
在科学网、Scopus和PubMed上进行布尔检索，以评估1990年至2019年期间巴拿马国内与“同一个健康”和传染病研究相关出版物的主要趋势。
自1990年以来共确定了4546篇出版物，其中包括3564篇与“同一个健康”相关描述符相互关联的同行评审文章，以及211篇特别关注传染病的文章。观察到巴拿马各机构有不同贡献的出版物数量呈指数增长模式。多学科研究的比例适中，而机构间和部门间研究的比例则从低到极低。研究工作主要集中在原生动物、被忽视的疾病以及节肢动物传播的疾病上，尤其侧重于疟疾、恰加斯病和利什曼病。
巴拿马在“同一个健康”方面具备应对未来传染病威胁的科研能力，但需要使官方合作计划和用于进一步发展能力的战略投资跟上时代步伐，即大流行时代。在此向巴拿马政府提出的主要建议是设立一个“同一个健康”区域中心，以促进巴拿马国内外的多学科、机构间和部门间研究活动。
