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Animal welfare deserts: human and nonhuman animal inequities
Residents of distressed areas of inner cities have less access to many of life’s necessities and amenities than their more well-off counterparts. Geographic proximity has been identified as a primary barrier to accessing care for pets potentially creating animal welfare deserts. This project address...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10368398/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37496750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1189211 |
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description | Residents of distressed areas of inner cities have less access to many of life’s necessities and amenities than their more well-off counterparts. Geographic proximity has been identified as a primary barrier to accessing care for pets potentially creating animal welfare deserts. This project addresses three questions: Are there visible animal welfare deserts in distressed urban centers?; What human inequities are most strongly related to animal welfare deserts?; and What might be done to address these inequities? Using business location and census data in the city of Detroit, this research identifies distinct animal welfare deserts finding that more prosperous areas have more pet support resources and that the need for services is not related to the location of pet stores and veterinary offices. The study concludes that the overlap between human economic distress and pet resource deserts presents a threat to the goals of One Health. Potential policy solutions are proposed to address inequities in the distribution of animal welfare resources. |
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spelling | pubmed-103683982023-07-26 Animal welfare deserts: human and nonhuman animal inequities Reese, Laura Li, Xiaomeng Front Vet Sci Veterinary Science Residents of distressed areas of inner cities have less access to many of life’s necessities and amenities than their more well-off counterparts. Geographic proximity has been identified as a primary barrier to accessing care for pets potentially creating animal welfare deserts. This project addresses three questions: Are there visible animal welfare deserts in distressed urban centers?; What human inequities are most strongly related to animal welfare deserts?; and What might be done to address these inequities? Using business location and census data in the city of Detroit, this research identifies distinct animal welfare deserts finding that more prosperous areas have more pet support resources and that the need for services is not related to the location of pet stores and veterinary offices. The study concludes that the overlap between human economic distress and pet resource deserts presents a threat to the goals of One Health. Potential policy solutions are proposed to address inequities in the distribution of animal welfare resources. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10368398/ /pubmed/37496750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1189211 Text en Copyright © 2023 Reese and Li. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Veterinary Science Reese, Laura Li, Xiaomeng Animal welfare deserts: human and nonhuman animal inequities |
title | Animal welfare deserts: human and nonhuman animal inequities |
title_full | Animal welfare deserts: human and nonhuman animal inequities |
title_fullStr | Animal welfare deserts: human and nonhuman animal inequities |
title_full_unstemmed | Animal welfare deserts: human and nonhuman animal inequities |
title_short | Animal welfare deserts: human and nonhuman animal inequities |
title_sort | animal welfare deserts: human and nonhuman animal inequities |
topic | Veterinary Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10368398/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37496750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1189211 |
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