A social cost-benefit analysis of two One Health interventions to prevent toxoplasmosis.

ABSTRACT: In the Netherlands, toxoplasmosis ranks second in disease burden among foodborne pathogens with an estimated health loss of 1,900 Disability Adjusted Life Years and a cost-of-illness estimated at €45 million annually. Therefore, effective and preferably cost-effective preventive interventions are warranted. Freezing meat intended for raw or undercooked consumption and improving biosecurity in pig farms are promising interventions to prevent Toxoplasma gondii infections in humans. Putting these interventions into practice would expectedly reduce the number of infections; however, the net benefits for society are unknown. Stakeholders bearing the costs for these interventions will not necessary coincide with the ones having the benefits. We performed a Social Cost-Benefit Analysis to evaluat

SUBMITTER: Suijkerbuijk AWM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6510435 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature