Socializing One Health: an innovative strategy to investigate social and behavioral risks of emerging viral threats.

ABSTRACT: In an effort to strengthen global capacity to prevent, detect, and control infectious diseases in animals and people, the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) PREDICT project funded development of regional, national, and local One Health capacities for early disease detection, rapid response, disease control, and risk reduction. From the outset, the EPT approach was inclusive of social science research methods designed to understand the contexts and behaviors of communities living and working at human-animal-environment interfaces considered high-risk for virus emergence. Using qualitative and quantitative approaches, PREDICT behavioral research aimed to identify and assess a range of socio-cultural behaviors that could be influential

SUBMITTER: Saylors K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8122533 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature