Moving interdisciplinary science forward: Integrating participatory modelling with mathematical modelling of zoonotic disease in Africa

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Grant, Catherine ^a   Lo Iacono, Giovanni ^f   Dzingirai, Vupenyu ^g   Bett, Bernard ^h   Winnebah, Thomas R A ⁱ   Atkinson, Peter M ^b,c,d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g Centre for Applied Social Science (CASS)   (Zimbabwe)

^h INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

ⁱ NJALA UNIVERSITY   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

Africa; Disease; Interdisciplinary; Modelling; One health; Participatory; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARBOVIRUS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HENIPAVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; LASSA FEVER; LIFESTYLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NAGANA; NIPAH VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSES;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLICY MAKING; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85006190453     PISSN: 20955162     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-016-0110-4     Document Type: Review

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