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One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil
Despite being an important public health issue, particularly due to rabies, dog bites and associated risk factors have rarely been assessed by health services from a One Health perspective. Accordingly, the present study aimed to assess dog biting and associated demographic and socioeconomic risk fa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10146334/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37104315 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8040189 |
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author | Constantino, Caroline Da Silva, Evelyn Cristine Dos Santos, Danieli Muchalak Paploski, Igor Adolfo Dexheimer Lopes, Marcia Oliveira Morikawa, Vivien Midori Biondo, Alexander Welker |
author_facet | Constantino, Caroline Da Silva, Evelyn Cristine Dos Santos, Danieli Muchalak Paploski, Igor Adolfo Dexheimer Lopes, Marcia Oliveira Morikawa, Vivien Midori Biondo, Alexander Welker |
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description | Despite being an important public health issue, particularly due to rabies, dog bites and associated risk factors have rarely been assessed by health services from a One Health perspective. Accordingly, the present study aimed to assess dog biting and associated demographic and socioeconomic risk factors in Curitiba, the eighth-largest Brazilian city with approximately 1.87 million people, based on the post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) rabies reports between January/2010 and December/2015. The total of 45,392 PEP reports corresponded to an average annual incidence of 4.17/1000 habitants, mainly affecting white (79.9%, 4.38/1000 population), males (53.1%, 4.81/1000 population), and children aged 0–9 years (20.1%, 6.9/1000 population), with severe accidents associated with older victims (p < 0.001) and mainly caused by dogs known to the victims. An increase of USD 100.00 in the median neighborhood income was associated with a 4.9% (95% CI: 3.8–6.1; p < 0.001) reduction in dog bites. In summary, dog biting occurrence was associated with victims’ low income, gender, race/color, and age; severe accidents were associated with elderly victims. As dog bites have been described as multifactorial events involving human, animal, and environmental factors, the characteristics presented herein should be used as a basis to define mitigation, control, and prevention strategies from a One Health perspective. |
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spelling | pubmed-101463342023-04-29 One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil Constantino, Caroline Da Silva, Evelyn Cristine Dos Santos, Danieli Muchalak Paploski, Igor Adolfo Dexheimer Lopes, Marcia Oliveira Morikawa, Vivien Midori Biondo, Alexander Welker Trop Med Infect Dis Brief Report Despite being an important public health issue, particularly due to rabies, dog bites and associated risk factors have rarely been assessed by health services from a One Health perspective. Accordingly, the present study aimed to assess dog biting and associated demographic and socioeconomic risk factors in Curitiba, the eighth-largest Brazilian city with approximately 1.87 million people, based on the post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) rabies reports between January/2010 and December/2015. The total of 45,392 PEP reports corresponded to an average annual incidence of 4.17/1000 habitants, mainly affecting white (79.9%, 4.38/1000 population), males (53.1%, 4.81/1000 population), and children aged 0–9 years (20.1%, 6.9/1000 population), with severe accidents associated with older victims (p < 0.001) and mainly caused by dogs known to the victims. An increase of USD 100.00 in the median neighborhood income was associated with a 4.9% (95% CI: 3.8–6.1; p < 0.001) reduction in dog bites. In summary, dog biting occurrence was associated with victims’ low income, gender, race/color, and age; severe accidents were associated with elderly victims. As dog bites have been described as multifactorial events involving human, animal, and environmental factors, the characteristics presented herein should be used as a basis to define mitigation, control, and prevention strategies from a One Health perspective. MDPI 2023-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10146334/ /pubmed/37104315 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8040189 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Constantino, Caroline Da Silva, Evelyn Cristine Dos Santos, Danieli Muchalak Paploski, Igor Adolfo Dexheimer Lopes, Marcia Oliveira Morikawa, Vivien Midori Biondo, Alexander Welker One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil |
title | One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil |
title_full | One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil |
title_fullStr | One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil |
title_full_unstemmed | One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil |
title_short | One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil |
title_sort | one health approach on dog bites: demographic and associated socioeconomic factors in southern brazil |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10146334/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37104315 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8040189 |
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