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Articles: Veterinary institutions in the developing world: current status and future needs
Posted by: JimEdwards on Jun 20, 2004 - 02:33 PM
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Scientific and Technical Review, Volume 23 (1), April 2004
C. de Haan (ed.)
Source: World organisation for animal health (OIE)
Veterinary institutions in the developing world need to adapt to the challenges of the increase in animal production (scale and intensity) and trade and in the movement of animals and products of animal origin, all of which significantly increase the threat of animal disease and zoonosis transmission. This adaptation of Veterinary Services will be carried out in the context of the important changes in the public and private sectors that have taken place in recent years: changing concepts regarding the role of government resulted in budget cuts and reduced support for the large number of tasks that the public Veterinary
Services traditionally performed. The greater focus of national and international policy-makers on reducing poverty in the developing world also added another dimension to the role of animal health services. All these different trends, led to a change in the division of responsibilities between public and private service providers and between the professional (university educated) and para-professional levels.
This special issue of the Scientific and Technical Review of the OIE (World organisation for animal health) provides a balance of the experiences so far and alternative approaches. A group of experts, who have been involved in the development of alternative animal health delivery systems, assess their experiences. The focus is on sub-Saharan Africa, because that is where the need for alternative systems is most pronounced, but all other continents are also covered. Some examples of veterinary institutions in the developed world, and their historical evolution, are provided as indications as to how these systems might work if transferred to the developing world. Depending on the background of the authors, the assessments focus on direct impacts on animal health, possible impacts on human public health, equity for the different target groups and the capacity to reach poor livestock keepers, or respecting trade related sanitary standards. This publication will help competent public veterinary authorities to design more effective veterinary delivery systems that help to improve the surveillance and notification of animal diseases and zoonoses, to safeguard public health, and to open up new markets for livestock products, thereby improving the livelihoods of the 600 million small livestock keepers in the developing world.
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ISBN 92-9044-605-6
ISSN 0253-1933
397 pp. approximately
Format: 21 ? 29.7 cm
Price: 50? (airmail postage is included for all countries)
Ref. : R 23-1
Contents
B. Vallat Preface
C. de Haan Introduction: the provision of animal health services in a changing world
Private and public sector roles
V. Ahuja The economic rationale of public and private sector roles in the provision of animal health services (1)
D.K. Leonard Tools from the new institutional economics for reforming the delivery of veterinary services (1)
Y. Le Brun Mechanisms for collaboration between public and private veterinarians: the animal health accreditation mandate (4)
J.A. Moura, M. Bedoya & M.P. Agudelo Relations between official and private veterinary services in epidemiology and the control of contagious diseases (3)
International standards
G.K. Br?ckner Working towards compliance with international standards (1)
A. Thiermann Adapting veterinary structures to meet the challenges of globalisation and the requirements of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (1)
Levels of service provision: professionals, para-professionals and auxiliaries
J.D. Woodford Synergies between veterinarians and para-professionals in the public and private sectors: organisational and institutional relationships that facilitate the process of privatising animal health services in developing countries (1)
F. Roger, J. Thonnat, P. Hendrikx & J. Domenech Disease monitoring and surveillance systems and the role of public and private animal health agents: the experience of Africa (2)
B.A. Diop & R. Bessin Links between non-professional agents and the official Veterinary Services in sub-Saharan Africa (2)
M.-H. Cassagne Livestock producer participation in the control of epizootics in developed countries: the experience of France (2)
R. Dubois & J.A. Moura Combating foot and mouth disease in Brazil: private sector participation (2)
S.J. de Groot & T. de Ruijter Quality control of the private veterinary profession in the Netherlands (1)
C. Rondeau, V. Bianchetti & M. Baussier The role of the Order of Veterinarians in the quality control of private veterinarians in France (2)
F. Ranaivosolofo The National Order of Veterinary Doctors of Madagascar and the quality control of private veterinarians (2)
Examples of experiences in the field with para-professionals
K. Leidl, M.P.O. Baumann & F. Schenkel The inception and development of basic animal health systems: examples of German development co-operation (1)
A. Catley, T. Leyland, J.C. Mariner, D.M.O. Akabwai,
B. Admassu, W. Asfaw, G. Bekele & H.Sh. Hassan Para-veterinary professionals and the development of quality, self-sustaining community-based services (1)
D. Peeling & S. Holden The effectiveness of community-based animal health workers, for the poor, for communities and for public safety (1)
E. Mathias & C.M. McCorkle Traditional livestock
healers (1)
Country case studies
B.E.C. Schreuder & D.E. Ward Afghanistan and the development of alternative systems of animal health in the absence of effective government (1)
B.G. Bedard & T. Hunt The emerging animal health delivery system in the Peoples Republic of China (1)
T.W. Schillhorn van Veen Eastern Europe and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: animal health systems in transition (1)
V. Lopez, F.C. Alexander & C.L. Bent Privatisation of Veterinary Services in Jamaica: a case study (1)
S. Chema & J.M. Gathuma Kenya: the development of private services and the role of the Kenya Veterinary Association (1)
A.B. Niang Successful privatisation of para-professional services in traditional livestock farming systems: the case of Senegal (2)
Current veterinary systems in the developing world
Y. Cheneau, A.H. El Idrissi & D. Ward An assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current veterinary systems in the developing world (1)
Implications for the future
H. Coulibaly Organisation of Veterinary Services in the developing countries of West Africa (2)
J. Domenech, P. Bonnet & J.-F. Renard The need for research to support the emergence of alternative animal health systems (2)
R. de Deken, M.J. Obwolo, E. Thys & S. Geerts The adjustment of curricula in veterinary faculties in sub-Saharan Africa (1)
C. de Haan Summary and conclusions
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(1) papers written in English with French and Spanish summaries
(2) papers written in French with English and Spanish summaries
(3) papers written in Spanish with English and French summaries
(4) papers written in English and French with a Spanish summary
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