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Operationalizing the Environment Health Nexus in Asia and the Pacific: A Policy Guide on Opportunities for Enhancing Health, Biodiversity, Food System and Climate Action
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This policy guide aims to support policymakers and stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region to address environment-health risks and safeguard human health and well-being while protecting ecosystems. Specifically, it provides an overview of concrete opportunities to mainstream the environment-health nexus in public policies in Asia and the Pacific.
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['Biodiversity', 'One Health', 'Guidelines', 'Asia', 'Oceania', '2022', 'Governance/Management', 'Human Well-Being', 'Ecosystem Health']
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Jul 12, 2023 07:25 PM
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The Role of Social Vulnerability in Improving Interventions for Neglected Zoonotic Diseases: The Example of Kyasanur Forest Disease in India
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Forest-based communities manage many risks to health and socio-economic welfare including the increasing threat of emerging zoonoses. Drawing on a survey of 229 households and a interviews in the Western Ghats, this research examines the factors affecting vulnerability of smallholder and tribal households to Kyasanur Forest Disease, an often-fatal tick-borne viral hemorrhagic fever endemic in south India.
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['Biodiversity', 'One Health', '2023', 'Infectious Disease', 'Human Well-Being', 'Research', 'Asia']
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Jun 30, 2023 09:19 PM
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Wet Market Biosecurity Reform: Three Social Narratives Influence Stakeholder Responses in Vietnam, Kenya, and the Philippines
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In 2020, Covid-19 led to global policy statements promoting bans and reforms to wet markets in Asia and Africa to prevent future pandemics. This report describes a comparative, exploratory qualitative study in 2021 in three countries (Kenya, Vietnam and the Philippines) to understand the social and political dimensions to biosecurity reform at wet markets. This included 60 key informant interviews and rapid ethnographic research in 15 markets, as well as a review of policy documents and online media articles.
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['Biodiversity', 'One Health', 'Research', 'Africa', 'Asia', '2023', 'One Health Highlighted Resources', 'Infectious Disease', 'Governance/Management']
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Dec 01, 2023 08:14 PM
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WildHealthNet: Supporting the Development of Sustainable Wildlife Health Surveillance Networks in Southeast Asia
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Wildlife and wildlife interfaces with people and livestock are essential surveillance targets to monitor emergent or endemic pathogens or new threats affecting wildlife, livestock, and human health. However, limitations of previous investments in scope and duration have resulted in a neglect of wildlife health surveillance systems at national and global scales, particularly in lower and middle income countries.
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['Biodiversity', 'One Health', '2022', 'Infectious Disease', 'Human Well-Being', 'Ecosystem Health', 'Research', 'Asia']
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Jul 12, 2023 06:51 PM
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