Study Findings from National Research Institute Provide New Insights into Tick-Borne Diseases and Conditions (A Social-ecological Systems Approach To Tick Bite and Tick-borne Disease Risk Management: Exploring Collective Action In the Occitanie …): Tick-Borne Diseases and Conditions

2023 DEC 05 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Tick-Borne Diseases and Conditions is now available. According to news reporting originating in Montpellier, France, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Ticks are amongst the most important zoonotic disease vectors affecting human and animal health worldwide. Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) are rapidly expanding geographically and in incidence, most notably in temperate regions of Europe where ticks are considered the principal zoonotic vector of Public Health relevance, as well as a major health and economic preoccupation in agriculture and equine industries.”

Financial support for this research came from European Union (EU).

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from National Research Institute, “Tick-borne pathogen (TBP) transmission is contingent on complex, interlinked vector-pathogen-host dynamics, environmental and ecological conditions and human behavior. Tackling TBD therefore requires a better understanding of the interconnected social and ecological variables (i.e., the social-ecological system) that favor disease (re)-emergence. The One Health paradigm recognizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health and proposes an integrated approach to manage TBD. However, One Health interventions are limited by significant gaps in our understanding of the complex, systemic nature of TBD risk, in addition to a lack of effective, universally accepted and environmentally conscious tick control measures. Today individual prevention gestures are the most effective strategy to manage TBDs in humans and animals, making local communities important actors in TBD detection, prevention and management. Yet, how they engage and collaborate within a multi-actor TBD network has not yet been explored. Here, we argue that transdisciplinary collaborations that go beyond research, political and medical stakeholders, and extend to local community actors can aid in identifying relevant social ecological risk indicators key for informing multi-level TBD detection, prevention and management measures. This article proposes a transdisciplinary social-ecological systems framework, based on participatory research approaches, to better understand the necessary conditions for local actor engagement to improve TBD risk.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “We conclude with perspectives for implementing this methodological framework in a case study in the south of France (Occitanie region), where multi-actor collaborations are mobilized to stimulate multi-actor collective action and identify relevant social-ecological indicators of TBD risk.”

For more information on this research see: A Social-ecological Systems Approach To Tick Bite and Tick-borne Disease Risk Management: Exploring Collective Action In the Occitanie Region In Southern France. One Health, 2023;17. One Health can be contacted at: Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 Nx Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Iyonna Zortman, National Research Institute Agr Food & Environm Inrae, French Agr Res Ctr Int Dev Cirad, Joint Res Unit Anim Hlth Territories Risks Ecosyst, Montpellier, France. Additional authors for this research include Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky, Elena Arsevska, Laurence Vial, Thomas Pollet, Aurelie Binot, Timothee Dub, Wim Van Bortel and Estelle Lefrancois.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2023.100630. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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