title: A socio-economic approach to One Health policy research in southern Africa.
abstract: One-health approaches have started being applied to health systems in some countries in  controlling infectious diseases in order to reduce the burden of disease in humans, livestock  and wild animals collaboratively. However, one wonders whether the problem of lingering  and emerging zoonoses is more affected by health policies, low application of one-health  approaches, or other factors. As part of efforts to answer this question, the Southern African  Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) smart partnership of human health,  animal health and socio-economic experts published, in April 2011, a conceptual framework to  support One Health research for policy on emerging zoonoses. The main objective of this paper  was to identify which factors really affect the burden of disease and how the burden could  affect socio-economic well-being. Amongst other issues, the review of literature shows that the  occurrence of infectious diseases in humans and animals is driven by many factors, the most  important ones being the causative agents (viruses, bacteria, parasites, etc.) and the mediator  conditions (social, cultural, economic or climatic) which facilitate the infection to occur and  hold. Literature also shows that in many countries there is little collaboration between medical  and veterinary services despite the shared underlying science and the increasing infectious  disease threat. In view of these findings, a research to inform health policy must walk on two  legs: a natural sciences leg and a social sciences one.
authors: Development Studies Institute, Sokoine University of Agriculture. kimkayunze@yahoo.com.
authors: Kim A
authors: KA
authors: Kayunze
authors: Angwara D
authors: AD
authors: Kiwara
authors: Eligius
authors: E
authors: Lyamuya
authors: Dominic M
authors: DM
authors: Kambarage
authors: Jonathan
authors: J
authors: Rushton
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Coker
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Kock
authors: Mark M
authors: MM
authors: Rweyemamu
mesh_terms: D000353:Africa, Southern; D000818:Animals; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D015047:Zoonoses