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Prescription drug monitoring program policy reform: human and veterinary practitioner prescribing in West Virginia, 2008–2020
No study has examined Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) data for West Virginia or among specialty practices, such as veterinary medicine....
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Giving Meaning to Action and Research: Notes on the ‘One Health’ Approach from a Sociological Perspective
The One Health (OH) approach emphasizes the need to tackle the challenges of human, animal and ecosystem health using a more integrated approach....
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From Global Problem Framing to Local Policy Implementation: Swiss Bureaucrats and the “Antibiotic Resistance” Issue
What happens to problems once they have been defined as global by international organizations supposed to boost a standardization of public policies?...
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Analysis of Ministers’ Survival in Chile and Uruguay
This chapter, after having identified the characteristics of cabinet configuration and proving the effects of personal variables on minister’s...
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Social Change Through Science and Technology
Equitable gender relations are facilitated through the process of transforming gender, social norms, and power relations in society. In the context...
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The integrity of the antimicrobial supply chain in Bangladesh: assessing the regulatory environment and contextual challenges
Most low- and middle-income countries lack the regulatory capacity to contain substandard and falsified (SF) medicines. Innovations for strengthening...
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Cordon Fences and Wildlife Tourism: Impacts on Wildlife
In many countries in the southern African region like Botswana, cordon fences have been put in place to control diseases and to minimise interactions...
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Figuring the ‘cynical scientist’ in British animal science: the politics of invisibility
This paper investigates the ‘cynical scientist’ as a figure in British animal science discourse that developed in relation to the nineteenth-century...
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The Healthcare Professionals in Nigeria
This chapter identifies the primary healthcare professions in Nigeria and apprises the readers of their central roles and clinical specialties. The...
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One Health in a World of Multiple Crises: A Necessary but Insufficient Approach
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated a plethora of fissures within society, and between society and nature. In its wake, there is a...
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Science, Technology and Innovation (STI): Its Role in South Africa’s Development Outcomes and STI Diplomacy
This paper describes aspects of South Africa’s continuing efforts to develop its science, technology and innovation (STI) base and STI’s contribution...
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Food Safety and Incipient Modern Value Chains: Evidence from Milk in Ethiopia
Modern marketing arrangements are increasingly being implemented to assure improved food quality and safety. However, it is not well known how these...
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COVID-19 and the Interruption of Sister Cities Activities: Lexington, Kentucky and Its Four “Sister” Thoroughbred Raising/Racing Cities
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly and negatively influenced human organizations and activities at global scales. The impacts are evident in not...
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Getting the Priorities Right: Stakeholders’ Involvement for a Holistic View of Research and Extension Needs in the Australian and Brazilian Dairy Industry
This chapter reviews the evolution of the extension framework, and key paradigms and models developed over the years. It draws on key extension...
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Re-habituation and the More-than-human Biopolitics of Gorilla Tourism in Uganda
‘Habituation’ is often described within conservation and tourism studies as a relational process by which animals and humans become accustomed to one...
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Harnessing Bio Cultural Resources for Strengthening One Health: The Case of Antibiotic Reduction in Livestock Farming
Health is one of the most visibly affected sectors in the growing global sustainability challenges with consequences at the nexus of human, animal...
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Comparison of international legislation and standards on veterinary drug residues in food of animal origin
Current legislation governing monitoring of drug residues in foodstuff of animal origin is being revised at the European level. This study provides a...