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  1. Surveys of the Street and Private Dog Population: Jamnagar, Gujarat India

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Tamara Kartal, Amit Chaudhari

    Humane Society International (HSI) conducted two dog population surveys in all 4 Zones of Jamnagar (human population of 609,613). One was a street dog survey and the other was a survey of the private (pet) dog population.

  2. Surveys of the Street and Private Dog Population in Vadodara, India

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Tamara Kartal, Amit Chaudhari

    This report presents the detailed results from two additional surveys which HSI conducted in July and August 2017. Street dog surveys were conducted across all twelve wards in Vadodara using the methodology already implemented in 2014 to reassess the composition and sterilization rate in the...

  3. Surveys of the Street and Private Dog Population: Kalhaar Bungalows, Gujarat India

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Tamara Kartal, Amit Chaudhari

    This baseline survey was conducted on the 27th and 28th of November, 2017 to generate a dog population size estimate and collect baseline data on the composition of the dog population. We estimate that there are 48 street dogs in the Kalhaar Bungalows area (all the sectors of Kalhaar...

  4. The Value of Pets to Public and Private Health and Well-Being

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Leslie Irvine

    This analysis reviews empirical studies of the health benefits of pet ownership published between 1980 and 2016 and collected in the database of the Human-Animal Bond Research Initiative, or HABRI. The analysis began with 373 titles and eventually encompassed a dataset of 151 full-text...

  5. No Pets Allowed: Discrimination, Homelessness, and Pet Ownership

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Ruby Aliment, Sara Rankin (editor), Kaya Lurie (editor)

    This brief is the first to address the particular challenges faced by pet owners experiencing homelessness, particularly as they relate to treatment by society at large, law enforcement practices, and access to housing and services. Researchers estimate that up to 25 percent of people...

  6. Animal ownership in low-income households: Is here a relationship between human and animal food insecurity?

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Mary Elizabeth Rauktis, Hyunji Lee

    This study examined the relationship between owning a pet and experiencing food insecurity in low-income households using self-administered surveys (N=392) and in-depth interviews (N=15). The study found that low-income pet owners were not at greater risk for being food insecure. In fact,...

  7. Report on zoonoses in Ireland 2004

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  8. Prioritizing Zoonotic Diseases for Multisectoral, One Health Collaboration in the United States

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  9. Prioritizing zoonotic diseases for multisectoral, one health collaboration in the United States : workshop summary

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.), United States. Department of the Interior., United States. Department of Agriculture

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) organized a One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization (OHZDP) workshop to further joint efforts to address zoonotic disease challenges in the...

  10. Report on zoonoses in Ireland 2005

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI)

  11. Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Associated with Animal Injuries, 2009

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    Reports | Contributor(s): A. Adams, J. Sutton, A. Elixhauser

  12. Assessment of the transfer of antimicrobial resistance between pets and humans in Norway. Opinion of the Panel on biological hazards of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Yngvild Wasteson, Eystein Skjerve, Anne-Mette Grønvold, Danica Grahek-Ogden, Karl Fredrich Eckner, Georg Kapperud, Jørgen Fr Lassen, Judith Narvhus, Truls Nesbakken, Lucy Robertson, Jan Thomas Rosnes, Taran Skjerdal, Line Vold, Siamak Pour Yazdankhah

  13. Urbanisation, the Peri-urban Growth and Zoonotic Disease

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Linda Waldman

    Ebola has had significant, negative effects in the rapidly expanding, unregulated areas of peri-urban and urban West Africa. The residents of these areas maintain vital connections with rural populations while intermingling with and living in close proximity to urban and elite populations....

  14. The political economy of One Health research and policy

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Victor Galaz, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Christian Stein

    ‘One Health’ has emerged over the last decade as a key concept guiding international research and policy in the field of emerging infectious diseases such as zoonoses. This paper explores the emergence of One Health and examines the political, economic and knowledge processes...

  15. Towards One Health? Evolution of international collaboration networks on Nipah virus research from 1999-2011

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Sophie Valeix

    The world is now facing the emergence of new pathogens and the return of old ones at an unprecedented speed. Among the wide range of emerging diseases, zoonoses – infections naturally transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans – represent a new complex global problem for...

  16. Toronto Humane Society's "Urgent Care" Temporary Fostering Program for Pet Owners Experiencing Crisis

    Reports | Contributor(s): Dillon Dodson

    Toronto Humane Society's "Urgent Care" Program:  Keeping Pets with their FamiliesIn March 2020, Toronto Humane Society launched our "Urgent Care" respite fostering program for pet owners experiencing a crisis rendering them temporarily unable to care for their...

  17. One Health, EcoHealth and agriculture associated diseases - Report of a regional dialogue, New Delhi, India, 25 November 2013

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    Reports | Contributor(s): International Livestock Research Institute

  18. Re-examining human-nonhuman relations among nomads of Eastern Tibet

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Vic Geelong

    In this paper, I explore how human-nonhuman relations among nomads of Eastern Tibet may be understood within the framework of a four-fold ontological system proposed by anthropologist, Philippe Descola. In what follows, I provide an account of Descola’s theoretical system, present...

  19. Lassa fever: The politics of an emerging disease and the scope for One Health

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Annie Wilkinson

    This paper explores the politics of knowledge and disease control for Lassa fever, a zoonotic viral haemorrhagic fever which is endemic in parts of West Africa. The Lassa virus has been classified as a Category A pathogen, meaning it is considered to be one of the world’s most dangerous...

  20. Wildlife viewing in Colorado : a review and synthesis of existing data

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    Reports | Contributor(s): Jerry J. Vaske, Karen Wittmann, Tara V. Williams, Karen Hardesty, Linda Sikorowski