Quantifying cost of disease in livestock: a new metric for the Global Burden of Animal Diseases

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Liverpoolen
cg.contributor.affiliationWashington State Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Gondaren
cg.contributor.affiliationMurdoch Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationUtrecht Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationPengwern Animal Healthen
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.contributor.donorForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Unionen
cg.creator.identifierWudu Temesgen Jemberu: 0000-0002-3769-307Xen
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/s2542-5196(24)00047-0en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2542-5196en
cg.issue5en
cg.journalLancet Planetary Healthen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL DISEASESen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.impactPlatformNutrition, Health and Food Security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.volume8en
dc.contributor.authorGilbert, W.en
dc.contributor.authorMarsh, T.L.en
dc.contributor.authorChaters, G.en
dc.contributor.authorJemberu, Wudu T.en
dc.contributor.authorBruce, M.en
dc.contributor.authorSteeneveld, W.en
dc.contributor.authorAfonso, J.S.en
dc.contributor.authorHuntington, B.en
dc.contributor.authorRushton, J.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-13T09:37:53Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-13T09:37:53Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/141818
dc.titleQuantifying cost of disease in livestock: a new metric for the Global Burden of Animal Diseasesen
dcterms.abstractBackground: Increasing awareness of the environmental and public health impacts of expanding and intensifying animal-based food and farming systems creates discord, with the reliance of much of the world's population on animals for livelihoods and essential nutrition. Increasing the efficiency of food production through improved animal health has been identified as a step towards minimising these negative effects without compromising global food security. The Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) programme aims to provide data and analytical methods to support positive change in animal health across all livestock and aquaculture animal populations. Methods: In this study, we present a metric that begins the process of disease burden estimation by converting the physical consequences of disease on animal performance to farm-level costs of disease, and calculates a metric termed the Animal Health Loss Envelope (AHLE) via comparison between the status quo and a disease-free ideal. An example calculation of the AHLE metric for meat production from broiler chickens is provided. Findings: The AHLE presents the direct financial costs of disease at farm-level for all causes by estimating losses and expenditure in a given farming system. The general specification of the model measures productivity change at farm-level and provides an upper bound on productivity change in the absence of disease. On its own, it gives an indication of the scale of total disease cost at farm-level. Interpretation: The AHLE is an essential stepping stone within the GBADs programme because it connects the physical performance of animals in farming systems under different environmental and management conditions and different health states to farm economics. Moving forward, AHLE results will be an important step in calculating the wider monetary consequences of changes in animal health as part of the GBADs programme.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2024-05-08en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGilbert, W., Marsh, T.L., Chaters, G., Jemberu, W.T., Bruce, M., Steeneveld, W., Afonso, J.S., Huntington, B. and Rushton, J. 2024. Quantifying cost of disease in livestock: a new metric for the Global Burden of Animal Diseases. Lancet Planetary Health 8(5): e309–e317.en
dcterms.extente309–e317en
dcterms.issued2024-05en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectanimal diseasesen
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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