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Health Care Providers' Knowledge and Practice Gap towards Joint Zoonotic Disease Surveillance System: Challenges and Opportunities, Gomma District, Southwest Ethiopia

Background. Health care providers play a crucial role for realization of joint zoonotic diseases surveillance by human and animal health sectors, yet there is limited evidence. Hence, this study aimed to determine knowledge and practice gap of health care providers towards the approach for Rabies an...

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Autores principales: Gemeda, Desta Hiko, Sime, Abiot Girma, Hajito, Kifle Woldemichael, Gelalacha, Benti Deresa, Tafese, Wubit, Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye Tewelde
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4992522/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27579311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3942672
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author Gemeda, Desta Hiko
Sime, Abiot Girma
Hajito, Kifle Woldemichael
Gelalacha, Benti Deresa
Tafese, Wubit
Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye Tewelde
author_facet Gemeda, Desta Hiko
Sime, Abiot Girma
Hajito, Kifle Woldemichael
Gelalacha, Benti Deresa
Tafese, Wubit
Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye Tewelde
author_sort Gemeda, Desta Hiko
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description Background. Health care providers play a crucial role for realization of joint zoonotic diseases surveillance by human and animal health sectors, yet there is limited evidence. Hence, this study aimed to determine knowledge and practice gap of health care providers towards the approach for Rabies and Anthrax in Southwest Ethiopia. Methods. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from December 16, 2014, to January 14, 2015. Eligible health care providers were considered for the study. Data were entered in to Epi-data version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 20. Results. A total of 323 (92.02%) health care providers participated in the study. Three hundred sixteen (97.8%) of participants reported that both human and animal health sectors can work together for zoonotic diseases while 96.9% of them replied that both sectors can jointly conduct surveillance. One hundred seventeen (36.2%) of them reported that their respective sectors had conducted joint surveillance for zoonotic diseases. Their involvement was, however, limited to joint outbreak response. Conclusion. There is good opportunity in health care providers' knowledge even though the practice was unacceptably low and did not address all surveillance components. Therefore, formal joint surveillance structure should be in place for optimal implementation of surveillance.
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spelling pubmed-49925222016-08-30 Health Care Providers' Knowledge and Practice Gap towards Joint Zoonotic Disease Surveillance System: Challenges and Opportunities, Gomma District, Southwest Ethiopia Gemeda, Desta Hiko Sime, Abiot Girma Hajito, Kifle Woldemichael Gelalacha, Benti Deresa Tafese, Wubit Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye Tewelde Biomed Res Int Research Article Background. Health care providers play a crucial role for realization of joint zoonotic diseases surveillance by human and animal health sectors, yet there is limited evidence. Hence, this study aimed to determine knowledge and practice gap of health care providers towards the approach for Rabies and Anthrax in Southwest Ethiopia. Methods. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from December 16, 2014, to January 14, 2015. Eligible health care providers were considered for the study. Data were entered in to Epi-data version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 20. Results. A total of 323 (92.02%) health care providers participated in the study. Three hundred sixteen (97.8%) of participants reported that both human and animal health sectors can work together for zoonotic diseases while 96.9% of them replied that both sectors can jointly conduct surveillance. One hundred seventeen (36.2%) of them reported that their respective sectors had conducted joint surveillance for zoonotic diseases. Their involvement was, however, limited to joint outbreak response. Conclusion. There is good opportunity in health care providers' knowledge even though the practice was unacceptably low and did not address all surveillance components. Therefore, formal joint surveillance structure should be in place for optimal implementation of surveillance. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4992522/ /pubmed/27579311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3942672 Text en Copyright © 2016 Desta Hiko Gemeda et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gemeda, Desta Hiko
Sime, Abiot Girma
Hajito, Kifle Woldemichael
Gelalacha, Benti Deresa
Tafese, Wubit
Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye Tewelde
Health Care Providers' Knowledge and Practice Gap towards Joint Zoonotic Disease Surveillance System: Challenges and Opportunities, Gomma District, Southwest Ethiopia
title Health Care Providers' Knowledge and Practice Gap towards Joint Zoonotic Disease Surveillance System: Challenges and Opportunities, Gomma District, Southwest Ethiopia
title_full Health Care Providers' Knowledge and Practice Gap towards Joint Zoonotic Disease Surveillance System: Challenges and Opportunities, Gomma District, Southwest Ethiopia
title_fullStr Health Care Providers' Knowledge and Practice Gap towards Joint Zoonotic Disease Surveillance System: Challenges and Opportunities, Gomma District, Southwest Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Health Care Providers' Knowledge and Practice Gap towards Joint Zoonotic Disease Surveillance System: Challenges and Opportunities, Gomma District, Southwest Ethiopia
title_short Health Care Providers' Knowledge and Practice Gap towards Joint Zoonotic Disease Surveillance System: Challenges and Opportunities, Gomma District, Southwest Ethiopia
title_sort health care providers' knowledge and practice gap towards joint zoonotic disease surveillance system: challenges and opportunities, gomma district, southwest ethiopia
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4992522/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27579311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3942672
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