Elsevier

One Health

Volume 7, June 2019, 100080
One Health

Infectious disease and economics: The case for considering multi-sectoral impacts

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Highlights

  • Assessing multi-sector impacts of zoonotic disease events provides new insights beyond engagement of the human health sector.

  • The private sector is an under-recognized stakeholder with key information and resources.

  • Public and private sector collaboration advances risk analysis and cost-sharing strategies.

Abstract

Beyond the public health impacts of regional or global emerging and endemic infectious disease events lay wider socioeconomic consequences that are often not considered in risk or impact assessments. With rapid and extensive international travel and trade, such events can elicit economic shock waves far beyond the realm of traditional health sectors and original geographical range of a pathogen. While private sector organizations are impacted indirectly by these disease events, they are under-recognized yet effective stakeholders that can provide critical information, resources, and key partnerships to public and private health systems in response to and in preparation for potential infectious disease events and their socioeconomic consequences.

Keywords

One Health
Economic
Infectious disease
Preparedness
Zoonoses

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