Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Ecohealth"

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    • Development and delivery of evidence-based messages to reduce the risk of zoonoses in Nairobi, Kenya 

      Kang’ethe, Erastus; Kimani, Violet; Grace, Delia; Mitoko, Grace; McDermott, Brigid; Ambia, Julie; Nyongesa, Concepta; Mbugua, Gabriel; Ogara, William; Obutu, Peninnah (SpringerDepartment of Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi,Department of Community Health, University of Nairobi,International Livestock Research Institute,Biometry Unit, Department of Crop Science, University of Nairobi,Centre for Microbiological Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute,, 2012)
      This paper describes a trans-disciplinary process of co-generating and disseminating evidence-based messages for reducing the risk from cryptosporidiosis and other zoonoses in an urban community in Nairobi. Research ...

    • The multiple burdens of zoonotic disease and an ecohealth approach to their assessment 

      Grace, Delia; Gilbert, Jeff; Randolph, Thomas; Kang’ethe, Erastus (2012)
      Zoonoses occur at the interface of human and animal disease and partly because their impact and management fall across two sectors they are often neglected. The Global Burden of Disease captures the impact of zoonoses on ...

    • Participatory and integrative approaches to food safety in developing country cities 

      Grace, Delia; Kang’ethe, Erastus; Waltner-Toews, David (SpringerInternational Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi,Veterinarians Without Borders, Victoria, Canada, 2012)

    • Participatory probabilistic assessment of the risk to human health associated with cryptosporidiosis from urban dairying in Dagoretti, Nairobi, Kenya 

      Delia, Grace; Joseph, Monda; Nancy, Karanja; Thomas, F. Randolph; Erastus, K. Kang’ethe (International Livestock Research InstituteDepartment of Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,Department of Soil Science, University of Nairobi, 2009)
      We carried out a participatory risk assessment to estimate the risk (negative consequences and their likelihood) from zoonotic Cryptosporidium originating in dairy farms in urban Dagoretti, Nairobi to dairy farm households ...

    • A trans-disciplinary study on the health risks of cryptosporidiosis from dairy systems in Dagoretti, Nairobi, Kenya: study background and farming system characteristics 

      Erastus, K. Kang’ethe; Violet N, Kimani; Brigid, McDermott; Delia, Grace; Alfred K., Lang’at; Monica W, Kiragu; Nancy, Karanja (Department of Public Health Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of NairobiDepartment of Community Health, University of Nairobi,Biometry Unit, Department of Crop Science University of Nairobi,International Livestock Research Institute, ILRIMinistry of Health,, 2009)
      This paper characterises the dairy farming system in Dagoretti, Nairobi. Characterisation was part of a broader ecohealth project to estimate the prevalence and risk of cryptosporidiosis and develop risk mitigation strategies. ...