Animals, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13(6), P. 1113 - 1113
Published: March 21, 2023
The social determinants of health (SDH) focus on the social, physical and economic factors that impact human health. Studies have revealed animal guardians face a range challenges in attaining positive welfare outcomes for their companion animals, which can be influenced by socioeconomic environmental factors. Despite this, there is lack research specifically exploring relationship between SDH outcomes. Given humans, turn directly impacts animal, it important to adapt an framework characterising attempts care animals and, extension, associated This paper explores how these may possible arise guardian when attempting meet animal’s needs. By integrating with other key frameworks, including five domains model welfare, through multidisciplinary collaboration, this used inform future programs aiming improve welfare.
Language: Английский
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28Access to veterinary care: evaluating working definitions, barriers, and implications for animal welfare
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11
Published: Jan. 18, 2024
Humans have a moral obligation to meet the physical and mental needs of animals in their care. This requires access resources such as veterinary care, which is integral achieving animal welfare. However, "access" care not always homogenous across communities currently lacks consistent definition. The objectives this scoping review were (1) understand how has been defined literature, (2) map broad list potential barriers that may influence (3) identify impacts welfare companion livestock animals. literature search yielded total 1,044 publications, 77 relevant our inclusion criteria, published between 2002 2022. Studies most frequently conducted United States (n = 17) Canada 11). Publications defining 10) or discussing its on 13) minimal. accessing thoroughly discussed 69) categorized into ten themes according common challenges keywords, with financial limitations 57), geographic location 35), limited personnel/equipment 32) being reported. results informed proposed definition Additionally, findings identified need further investigate several understudied relating (i.e., veterinarian-client relationship, client identity) better they potentially affect outcomes.
Language: Английский
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13Animal welfare deserts: human and nonhuman animal inequities
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 10
Published: July 11, 2023
Residents of distressed areas inner cities have less access to many life's necessities and amenities than their more well-off counterparts. Geographic proximity has been identified as a primary barrier accessing care for pets potentially creating animal welfare deserts. This project addresses three questions: Are there visible deserts in urban centers?; What human inequities are most strongly related deserts?; might be done address these inequities? Using business location census data the city Detroit, this research identifies distinct finding that prosperous pet support resources need services is not stores veterinary offices. The study concludes overlap between economic distress resource presents threat goals One Health. Potential policy solutions proposed distribution resources.
Language: Английский
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11The development and validation of the One Health Community Assessment
One Health, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 18, P. 100722 - 100722
Published: April 4, 2024
Interdisciplinary collaborations to address human, animal, and environmental health have been emphasized since the inception of One Health framework. A quantitative survey instrument was developed measure perceptions impacts pets on Health. Using exploratory sequential mixed methods approach, 20 interviews were conducted with individuals from a racially diverse low-socioeconomic status community in U.S. understand their Data those informed development Likert scale measuring individual community, pet, welfare, as well connections between domains triad (human, environment). The resulting Community Assessment (OHCA) administered two urban rural underserved communities longitudinally (2018–2021) through door-to-door data collection phone, email, text surveys. Validation completed using collected third fourth years study (n = 654). Factor analysis orthogonal varimax rotation used assess structure internal consistency OHCA. Five subscales explained 42.4% variance our 92-item instrument: (Cronbach's α 0.897), human (α 0.842), pet 0.899), 0.789), 0.762). OHCA represents first reliable validated
Language: Английский
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3Association of Socioeconomic Status and Reasons for Companion Animal Relinquishment
Animals, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(17), P. 2549 - 2549
Published: Sept. 2, 2024
It is important to understand the reasons for companion animal relinquishment help reduce financial and ethical problems arising from too many dogs cats in shelters. This study investigates socioeconomic factors behind Australia, utilizing data five shelters, over a five-year period (Financial Year 2018/19 2022/23). Descriptive statistics reveal that median Index of Relative Socio-Economic Advantage Disadvantage (IRSAD) decile guardians who relinquished their was 4 out 10, indicating they live areas lower-than-average status. Cats accounted 59.4% 40.6% all relinquishments, with more relinquishments lower deciles (1–5) (cats: 62.6%, dogs: 65.8%). The age 5 months 16 months, human factor-related issues (e.g., Housing, Financial Constraints, Human Healthcare) cited 86% cases. analysis years shows declining trend numbers housing (31.2%) identified as primary reason, followed by ownership decisions (16.2%), constraints (11.2%), health (10.4%). Comparing between (decile 1–5) higher 6–10) status demonstrated difficulties were common reason vs. groups, while family-related are groups. These findings highlight critical role understanding why people relinquish animals, which can inform targeted interventions support welfare across different backgrounds.
Language: Английский
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3Community factors and animal shelter outcomes
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 27(1), P. 105 - 123
Published: April 12, 2022
This research explores connections between the nature of a community, type animal shelter it has, how animals arrive at shelter, and outcomes for in terms adoption or euthanasia. Based on data from Shelter Animals Count, study concludes that local community is related to served by, dogs directly outcomes. Areas with greater economic stress lower educational attainment are more likely have municipal which increases stray intake, ultimately Community also associated higher euthanasia rates. The findings suggest multi-pronged strategy increase adoptions reduce focusing both shelters but using One Health approach improve welfare humans non-human animals.
Language: Английский
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14Trends in Intake and Outcome Data From U.S. Animal Shelters From 2016 to 2020
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 9
Published: June 14, 2022
In this retrospective, exploratory study, intake and outcome data were compiled from 1,373 U.S. animal shelters for which such reported consistently across a five-year study period (2016-2020). Linear regression analysis was used to examine the trends impacts of first year COVID-19 pandemic (2020) on overall in outcomes shelters. The results reveal that total euthanasia both dogs cats significantly decreased over period. adoption, return-to-owner, return-to-field, transfer (for cats) categories as percentage all showed significant increases. Live release rates function intakes increases findings address critical gap field by summarizing emerging at national level how are being served
Language: Английский
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10The everyday work of One Welfare in animal sheltering and protection
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 9(1)
Published: Dec. 1, 2022
Abstract In animal sheltering and protection, One Welfare initiatives include supporting people who have difficulty providing for their animals because of limitations in physical or mental health, income housing. However, little research has focused on the actual work that such involve shelter staff protection officers. We used institutional ethnography to explore how activities occur frontline practices better understand this is coordinated. Methods included ethnographic observation officers staff, document analysis, plus focus groups interviews with managers. cases where an animal’s care was deficient but did not meet standard legal intervention, provided supplies animals, referred them low-cost free veterinary care, emergency boarding. This time-consuming sometimes done repeatedly without lasting effect. It often constrained by owners’ limited housing, cognitive decline, health other factors. Hence, improving welfare these ways difficult uncertain. Although are increasingly expected provide record supports given vulnerable owners, procedures criteria intervention yet evolved; hence largely left judgement ingenuity personnel. addition, necessary collaboration between workers human social services (e.g. workers, supportive-housing staff) made different expectations processes governing activities. Further needed assess meeting needs both could be strengthened challenging situations. might sharing best among further analysis services, they interact actually affect care. Institutional provides a way study organisational shape constrain its explicit insights may missed approaches.
Language: Английский
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5Causes and consequences of feline haemothorax: A retrospective case series
Veterinary Record, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 195(3)
Published: July 1, 2024
The objective of this study was to describe the causes haemothorax in cats, patient presentation and outcome.
Language: Английский
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0Bem-estar animal nas cidades: uma revisão sistemática de literatura
Ciências sociais aplicadas em revista, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 27(47), P. 100 - 127
Published: Aug. 1, 2024
Este artigo tem como objetivo central analisar o bem-estar animal nas cidades a partir de uma revisão sistemática literatura. O tema, caráter multidisciplinar, multinível e multidimensional, é complexo se alinha também ao campo da política cidades, que depende fortemente redes formais informais organizações prestam serviços direcionados esta causa. A seguiu as diretrizes contidas na declaração PRISMA. literatura apresenta dispersão palavras-chave mostrando que, mesmo os termos contrários, não expressam definição única. Em linhas gerais, visto algo complexifica com aumento do processo urbanização, consistindo em série fatores permitem aos animais terem qualidade vida, desenvolvimento pleno vida saudável. Tais são explorados longo texto. contribui tanto para quanto prática, explorar elementos ligam tema envolvendo múltiplos níveis análise possíveis juntos, mostram heterogeneidade visões, pluralidade atores envolvidos, bem multiplicidade conhecimentos envolvem temática nos espaços urbanos.
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