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: Received: 6 January 2022 / Approved: 10 January 2022 / Online: 10 January 2022 (13:59:47 CET)
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Janoušková, Eva, et al. "Public Health Policy Pillars for the Sustainable Elimination of Zoonotic Schistosomiasis." Frontiers in Tropical Diseases，2022，doi: 10.3389/fitd.2022.826501.
Janoušková, Eva, et al. "Public Health Policy Pillars for the Sustainable Elimination of Zoonotic Schistosomiasis." Frontiers in Tropical Diseases，2022，doi: 10.3389/fitd.2022.826501.
Janoušková, Eva, et al. "Public Health Policy Pillars for the Sustainable Elimination of Zoonotic Schistosomiasis." Frontiers in Tropical Diseases，2022，doi: 10.3389/fitd.2022.826501.
Janoušková, Eva, et al. "Public Health Policy Pillars for the Sustainable Elimination of Zoonotic Schistosomiasis." Frontiers in Tropical Diseases，2022，doi: 10.3389/fitd.2022.826501.
Abstract
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease acquired through contact with contaminated freshwater. The definitive hosts are terrestrial mammals, including humans, with some Schistosoma species crossing the animal-human boundary through zoonotic transmission. An estimated 12 million people live at risk of zoonotic schistosomiasis caused by Schistosoma japonicum and Schistosoma mekongi, largely in the World Health Organization’s Western Pacific Region and in Indonesia. Mathematical models have played a vital role in our understanding of the biology, transmission, and impact of intervention strategies, however, these have mostly focused on non-zoonotic Schistosoma species. Whilst these non-zoonotic-based models capture some aspects of zoonotic schistosomiasis transmission dynamics, the commonly-used frameworks are yet to adequately capture the complex epi-ecology of multi-host zoonotic transmission. However, overcoming these knowledge gaps goes beyond transmission dynamics modelling. To improve model utility and enhance zoonotic schistosomiasis control programmes, we highlight three pillars that we believe are vital to sustainable interventions at the implementation (community) and policy-level, and discuss the pillars in the context of a One-Health approach, recognising the interconnection between humans, animals and their shared environment. These pillars are: (1) human and animal epi-ecological understanding; (2) economic considerations (such as treatment costs and animal losses); and (3) sociological understanding, including inter- and intra-human and animal interactions. These pillars must be built on a strong foundation of trust, support and commitment of stakeholders and involved institutions.
Medicine and Pharmacology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
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Received:
8 February 2022
Commenter:
Eva Janoušková
Commenter's Conflict of Interests:
Author
Comment:
We improved the manuscript in two ways: 1) We have made more clear that these pillars must be built on foundation of stakeholders engagement. 2) We have balanced the first pillar to show that it is not only based on modeling, but that data collection and analysis also play an important role.
(A pdf file with changes displayed is within the submission files, see '..._diffpreprints.pdf', where removed text is in red, and new text in blue.)
Accordingly, we changed the graphical abstract---we added the stakeholders engagement as a foundation of the pillars.
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Commenter: Eva Janoušková
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author
(A pdf file with changes displayed is within the submission files, see '..._diffpreprints.pdf', where removed text is in red, and new text in blue.)
Accordingly, we changed the graphical abstract---we added the stakeholders engagement as a foundation of the pillars.