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Ratchet effect in veterinary antibiotic use by contract farmers from the perspective of production risk: Implications for public health

The current indiscriminate use of antibiotics for veterinary is irresponsible and misguided; it causes antibiotic resistance and adversely affects public health. The terms “habit” and “path dependence” are often used to explain the “excessive” use of agrochemicals. Yet, no research explored where th...

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Autores principales: Li, Lingzhi, Ying, Ruiyao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9523875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36187653
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1008611
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description The current indiscriminate use of antibiotics for veterinary is irresponsible and misguided; it causes antibiotic resistance and adversely affects public health. The terms “habit” and “path dependence” are often used to explain the “excessive” use of agrochemicals. Yet, no research explored where the habit comes from and how it changes. This study investigates how veterinary antibiotic use changed with the production risk based on the multi-period production data set of 1,526 broiler contract farmers. The results show that the production risk has a ratchet effect on farmers' antibiotic use, leading to path dependence of farmers. Specifically, it showed a farmers' habit of steadily increasing antibiotic use and confirmed that the historical broilers' peak mortality was a key determinant to the continuation of this habit. It implies that higher the historical peak mortality, higher the current antibiotic use by farmers. Likewise, the impact of historical peak mortality on antibiotic use gradually increased with the farming experience. The increased historical peak mortality increased farmers' antibiotic use every time. Furthermore, large-scale farmers were more sensitive to historical peak mortality and therefore they increased antibiotic use excessively. The study suggests that improving farmers' production risk management capabilities, especially large-scale farmers, might help prevent extreme events. Moreover, this work contributes to the theoretical and empirical evidence on the ratchet effect, habit formation and farmers' antibiotic use and offers coherent insights for stakeholders to limit antibiotic use.
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spelling pubmed-95238752022-10-01 Ratchet effect in veterinary antibiotic use by contract farmers from the perspective of production risk: Implications for public health Li, Lingzhi Ying, Ruiyao Front Public Health Public Health The current indiscriminate use of antibiotics for veterinary is irresponsible and misguided; it causes antibiotic resistance and adversely affects public health. The terms “habit” and “path dependence” are often used to explain the “excessive” use of agrochemicals. Yet, no research explored where the habit comes from and how it changes. This study investigates how veterinary antibiotic use changed with the production risk based on the multi-period production data set of 1,526 broiler contract farmers. The results show that the production risk has a ratchet effect on farmers' antibiotic use, leading to path dependence of farmers. Specifically, it showed a farmers' habit of steadily increasing antibiotic use and confirmed that the historical broilers' peak mortality was a key determinant to the continuation of this habit. It implies that higher the historical peak mortality, higher the current antibiotic use by farmers. Likewise, the impact of historical peak mortality on antibiotic use gradually increased with the farming experience. The increased historical peak mortality increased farmers' antibiotic use every time. Furthermore, large-scale farmers were more sensitive to historical peak mortality and therefore they increased antibiotic use excessively. The study suggests that improving farmers' production risk management capabilities, especially large-scale farmers, might help prevent extreme events. Moreover, this work contributes to the theoretical and empirical evidence on the ratchet effect, habit formation and farmers' antibiotic use and offers coherent insights for stakeholders to limit antibiotic use. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9523875/ /pubmed/36187653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1008611 Text en Copyright © 2022 Li and Ying. 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.
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Ratchet effect in veterinary antibiotic use by contract farmers from the perspective of production risk: Implications for public health
title Ratchet effect in veterinary antibiotic use by contract farmers from the perspective of production risk: Implications for public health
title_full Ratchet effect in veterinary antibiotic use by contract farmers from the perspective of production risk: Implications for public health
title_fullStr Ratchet effect in veterinary antibiotic use by contract farmers from the perspective of production risk: Implications for public health
title_full_unstemmed Ratchet effect in veterinary antibiotic use by contract farmers from the perspective of production risk: Implications for public health
title_short Ratchet effect in veterinary antibiotic use by contract farmers from the perspective of production risk: Implications for public health
title_sort ratchet effect in veterinary antibiotic use by contract farmers from the perspective of production risk: implications for public health
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9523875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36187653
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1008611
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