Journal article
Spatial and temporal risk as drivers for adoption of foot and mouth disease vaccination
Vaccine, Vol.36(33), pp.5077-5083
08/09/2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/109656
PMCID: PMC6073883
PMID: 29997035
Abstract
•The value of vaccination increases with perceived risk.•Heightened proximity of risk introduces uncertainty.•Household capacity to cope with resource constraints influences vaccination uptake.•Concerns for vaccine efficacy undermine vaccination coverage.
Identifying the drivers of vaccine adoption decisions under varying levels of perceived disease risk and benefit provides insight into what can limit or enhance vaccination uptake. To address the relationship of perceived benefit relative to temporal and spatial risk, we surveyed 432 pastoralist households in northern Tanzania on vaccination for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). Unlike human health vaccination decisions where beliefs regarding adverse, personal health effects factor heavily into perceived risk, decisions for animal vaccination focus disproportionately on dynamic risks to animal productivity. We extended a commonly used stated preference survey methodology, willingness to pay, to elicit responses for a routine vaccination strategy applied biannually and an emergency strategy applied in reaction to spatially variable, hypothetical outbreaks. Our results show that households place a higher value on vaccination as perceived risk and household capacity to cope with resource constraints increase, but that the episodic and unpredictable spatial and temporal spread of FMD contributes to increased levels of uncertainty regarding the benefit of vaccination. In addition, concerns regarding the performance of the vaccine underlie decisions for both routine and emergency vaccination, indicating a need for within community messaging and documentation of the household and population level benefits of FMD vaccination.
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- Title
- Spatial and temporal risk as drivers for adoption of foot and mouth disease vaccination
- Creators
- Ashley F Railey - Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, USATiziana Lembo - Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health; Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine; College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomGuy H Palmer - Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, USAGabriel M Shirima - Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, TanzaniaThomas L Marsh - Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, USA
- Publication Details
- Vaccine, Vol.36(33), pp.5077-5083
- Academic Unit
- Economic Sciences, School of; Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Identifiers
- 99900547149401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article