A visualisation tool to understand disease prevention and control practices of stakeholders working along the poultry supply chain in southern India


Greru, Chamithri, Thompson, Rebekah, Gowthaman, Vasudevan, Shanmugasundaram, Saranya, Ganesan, Nagaarjun, Murthy, TR Gopala Krishna, Eltholth, Mahmoud, Cole, Jennifer, Joshi, Jyoti, Runjala, Ravikiran et al (show 4 more authors) (2022) A visualisation tool to understand disease prevention and control practices of stakeholders working along the poultry supply chain in southern India. HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS, 9 (1). 169-.

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Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In this paper, we show how we developed a visualisation tool to challenge perceived notions about biosecurity on poultry farms. Veterinarians and veterinary public health professionals tend to present biosecurity measures as a universal and cost-effective solution for preventing and controlling diseases on farms. However, we illustrate how biosecurity is an ill-defined term, making it difficult to talk about or apply in practice. As a result, we demonstrate how we moved away from using the term biosecurity in our research by designing a visualisation tool. The tool was to allow us to open up dialogue around disease prevention and control, and make tangible the tacit situated practices of stakeholders working along the poultry supply chain. Our findings show that for those working along the poultry supply chain, the term biosecurity was either consistently open to interpretation, or too rigid to reflect or allow for local variations. We conclude by highlighting how our visualisation tool offers insights into why researchers must move beyond using biosecurity as a term, and instead envisage, design, and develop local solutions to prevent and control diseases on poultry farms.</jats:p>

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Prevention, 3 Good Health and Well Being
Divisions: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 13 Jun 2022 08:23
Last Modified: 17 Mar 2024 14:02
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01188-3
Open Access URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01188-3
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3156369
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