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SOA
22
Internal project

Action 1 - Leading Institute: AU

Project summary

This EU project assesses the broad societal impacts of animal diseases on welfare, public health, and the environment. It aims to support better decision-making by evaluating the costs and benefits of disease prevention, enhancing the sustainability of the EU livestock industry through improved health and welfare practices.

Project objectives

  • To extend bio-economic simulation models into bio-burden models for estimating economic and other societal burdens of priority and production diseases
  • To estimate the economic consequences of selected diseases for which estimates of disease costs are not well established
  • To develop a framework to enable socioeconomic evaluations regarding different surveillance and mitigation options to prevent specific diseases from establishing and spread in and between animal holdings or to the human population
  • To analyze the economics of management practices and prevention measures to control priority and production diseases
  • To model and assess economic and environmental effects of health problems and their prevention

Outcomes and impacts

  • A description of a dynamic, stochastic, and mechanistic bio-burden model that can be used to evaluate the effect of disease on economics, animal welfare, use of antimicrobials, environment, and public health
  • Short list of available data sources and models to be used as basis for quantification of the burden of disease in production animals
  • A report including the results presenting the monitoring and evaluation framework for optimal resource allocation during an outbreak and tracking of disease spread for priority diseases. (UCPH; M12).
  • Report documenting a herd simulation model analysis of the effect of dairy cows' metabolic diseases on enteric methane emission and economy (AU; M12).
  • Contribution to EU research goals: Advancing European leadership in animal health, welfare, and food safety.
  • Safer food for consumers: Promoting sustainable and responsible food production practices.
Priority Area 4
Integrated approach, including socio-economic aspects of animal health & welfare
Operational objective (OO9)
To develop an integrated approach on animal health and welfare including socio-economic aspects
Key words
Economic
societal burden
decision-making
costbenefit
farm and policy level
sustainability