The economic and poverty impacts of animal diseases in developing countries: New roles, new demands for economics and epidemiology

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 133-147

  Rich, Karl M ^a   Perry, Brian D ^b,c,d,e  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS NUPI   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e NONE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Decision making; Developing countries; Poverty impacts; Value chain; Veterinary epidemiology and economics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; POVERTY;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; POVERTY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79960394623     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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