Rev Sci Tech. 2024 Aug;43:115-125. doi: 10.20506/rst.43.3524.
Animals play a central role in human livelihoods and welfare. Animal diseases have a great impact on the benefits humans derive from animals and can also pose a risk to human health. Better control of animal diseases generates wider societal benefits, including reducing the climate and ecological impacts of livestock and improving animal welfare. To better understand the scale of investment justified for the control and prevention of animal disease, the wide-ranging impacts of disease on animal production and health must be measured. The Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) programme is quantifying animal disease burden from the local to global levels. The GBADs programme includes country case studies for national- and local-level analysis. Ethiopia is the first case study country in which GBADs methods have been applied. GBADs'Ethiopia case study consists of three activity areas: i) stakeholder engagement; ii) livestock disease burden estimation, including data collection, analytics, evidence generation and communication; and iii) capacity building in animal health economics. At the start of the case study, various stakeholder communication platforms were used to familiarise stakeholders with GBADs and engage their support in various ways, including data access, and, through this engagement, to ensure the programme tools and outputs were relevant and useful to their needs. Existing data were retrieved from multiple sources and used to estimate disease burden. This process involved multiple steps, including estimation of biomass and economic value, the Animal Health Loss Envelope (farm-level disease burden), wider economic impacts and attribution of the disease burden to different levels of causes. This was carried out for major livestock species (cattle, sheep, goats and poultry) in Ethiopia. Capacity building on animal health economics was carried out for GBADs end users to increase competence in utilising animal health economic evidence, including GBADs outputs. This article documents experiences of the implementation of these activities in the GBADs Ethiopia case study.
动物在人类生计和福利中发挥着核心作用。动物疾病对人类从动物中获得的利益有重大影响，也可能对人类健康构成威胁。更好地控制动物疾病会产生更广泛的社会效益，包括减少畜牧业对气候和生态的影响，以及改善动物福利。为了更好地了解控制和预防动物疾病所需投资的规模，必须衡量疾病对动物生产和健康的广泛影响。全球动物疾病负担（GBADs）计划正在从地方到全球各级量化动物疾病负担。GBADs 计划包括国家和地方一级分析的国家案例研究。埃塞俄比亚是第一个应用 GBADs 方法的案例研究国家。GBADs 的埃塞俄比亚案例研究包括三个活动领域：i）利益相关者参与；ii）牲畜疾病负担估计，包括数据收集、分析、证据生成和交流；以及 iii）动物卫生经济学能力建设。在案例研究开始时，使用了各种利益相关者沟通平台，使利益相关者熟悉 GBADs，并以各种方式支持他们的参与，包括数据访问，通过这种参与，确保方案工具和产出符合他们的需求并具有实用性。从多个来源检索到现有数据并用于估计疾病负担。这一过程涉及多个步骤，包括估计生物量和经济价值、动物健康损失 envelopes（农场层面疾病负担）、更广泛的经济影响以及将疾病负担归因于不同层次的原因。这是针对埃塞俄比亚的主要牲畜物种（牛、绵羊、山羊和家禽）进行的。对 GBADs 最终用户进行了动物卫生经济学方面的能力建设，以提高利用动物卫生经济证据的能力，包括 GBADs 产出。本文记录了在 GBADs 埃塞俄比亚案例研究中实施这些活动的经验。
