Full Text Available

Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.

Scoping review of risk assessment studies in animal health and trade in Africa

Mini Dissertation (MSc (Tropical Animal Health))--University of Pretoria, 2022.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grewar, John Duncan
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Pretoria 2023
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1867613711694299136
access_status_str Open Access
author2 Grewar, John Duncan
author_browse Grewar, John Duncan
author_facet Grewar, John Duncan
collection Thesis
dc_rights_str_mv © 2021 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
description Mini Dissertation (MSc (Tropical Animal Health))--University of Pretoria, 2022.
format Thesis
id oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/92175
institution University of Pretoria (South Africa)
language English
last_indexed 2026-06-10T12:40:29.643Z
license_str Other — see source repository
provenance_str_mv Harvested via OAI-PMH from UPSpace — University of Pretoria Institutional Repository
publishDate 2023
publishDateRange 2023
publishDateSort 2023
publisher University of Pretoria
publisherStr University of Pretoria
record_format dspace
source_str UPSpace — University of Pretoria Institutional Repository
spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/92175 Scoping review of risk assessment studies in animal health and trade in Africa Grewar, John Duncan karenosamoisy@gmail.com Quan, Melvyn Samoisy, Karen Onai UCTD Risk assessment Scoping review Animal health Commodities Trade Mini Dissertation (MSc (Tropical Animal Health))--University of Pretoria, 2022. Background: Risk assessments are crucial foundations for effective animal health control and surveillance. They demonstrate the safety of a country’s livestock commodities for trade, thereby improving trust between trade partners. Methods: A scoping review was conducted across three major multidisciplinary databases as well as grey literature to identify and classify relevant peer-reviewed and unpublished risk assessment studies on animal health and trade conducted in Africa. The Arksey and O’Malley (2005) framework for scoping reviews was used to identify, select, and synthesize evidence of the different risk assessments conducted in animal health and trade in Africa. Both the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) risk assessment framework and the Population, Concept, Context (PCC) nomenclature were used to assist in screening and assessing articles for eligibility. The scoping review was conducted based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension guidelines for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR) and the review process was mapped in a PRISMA flowchart. Results and Discussion: A total of 25 articles were included in the final analysis. There were 15 quantitative risk assessments and 10 qualitative risk assessments. Most of these risk assessments were conducted in Eastern and Southern Africa. The risk assessments were published from 12 different countries of which the most frequent were from Ethiopia (25%) followed by South Africa (21%). The most frequently assessed diseases were foot-and-mouth disease and avian influenza. Although, the findings show that there has been an increase in the number of studies conducted on risk assessments in animal health and trade over the past 30 years, the quantity of studies published is still low considering that only 25 risk assessment studies have been documented during this period. Conclusion: To enable a comprehensive risk estimation, more risk assessments employing the WOAH risk assessment framework should be openly published to inform policy on livestock health and trade and to add to the body of work available to risk analysts. Veterinary Tropical Diseases MSc (Tropical Animal Health) Unrestricted 2023-09-04T12:50:01Z 2023-09-04T12:50:01Z 2023-04 2022-10 Mini Dissertation * A2023 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/92175 en © 2021 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
spellingShingle UCTD
Risk assessment
Scoping review
Animal health
Commodities
Trade
Scoping review of risk assessment studies in animal health and trade in Africa
title Scoping review of risk assessment studies in animal health and trade in Africa
title_full Scoping review of risk assessment studies in animal health and trade in Africa
title_fullStr Scoping review of risk assessment studies in animal health and trade in Africa
title_full_unstemmed Scoping review of risk assessment studies in animal health and trade in Africa
title_short Scoping review of risk assessment studies in animal health and trade in Africa
title_sort scoping review of risk assessment studies in animal health and trade in africa
topic UCTD
Risk assessment
Scoping review
Animal health
Commodities
Trade
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/92175