Understanding framings and perceptions of spillover: Preventing future outbreaks of bat-borne zoonoses
Understanding framings and perceptions of spillover: Preventing future outbreaks of bat-borne zoonoses
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了解溢出效应的框架和看法：预防未来蝙蝠传播的人畜共患疾病的爆发
DOI：
10.1108/dpm-04-2016-0082
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Y. Ntiamoa
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文献类型：
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作者：
Elaine Tweneboah Lawson;F. Ohemeng;J. Ayivor;M. Leach;L. Waldman;Y. Ntiamoa
目的
蝙蝠提供许多生态系统服务，具有内在价值。它们也是一些病毒的宿主。几项研究将人畜共患病与蝙蝠联系起来，提出了关于蝙蝠构成的风险的问题，特别是对生活在蝙蝠栖息地附近的人。通过在三个社区进行的一系列案例研究，本文的目的是探讨蝙蝠的框架和看法可以影响潜在的蝙蝠传播的病毒在加纳人类的溢出的各种方式。它评估了推动人类与蝙蝠互动的社会、文化和经济因素，并认为了解人类与蝙蝠互动的社会经济背景是未来沟通策略成功的关键。
设计/方法/方式
主要数据收集方法包括参与式景观制图、样带行走、焦点小组讨论和问卷调查。
结果
人们对蝙蝠的看法各不相同，并受到个人信仰、从蝙蝠身上获得的经济利益和蝙蝠栖息地的影响。使人们处于危险之中的活动包括猎杀蝙蝠、屠宰和食用未经处理的蝙蝠肉。例如，那些在蝙蝠栖息地附近生活和工作的人，以及蝙蝠猎人，更有可能受到蝙蝠传播的人畜共患病的影响。人们对疾病风险的认识普遍较低，不确定性很高，这表明需要更明确地了解个人防护做法。
独创性/价值
该研究的结果可以很好地为未来的风险沟通策略提供信息，并有助于制定有效的应对人畜共患病风险，疾病爆发和社区蝙蝠保护的措施。
Purpose
Bats provide many ecosystem services and have intrinsic value. They also act as host reservoirs for some viruses. Several studies have linked zoonotic diseases to bats, raising questions about the risks bats pose, especially to people living close to bat roosts. Through a series of case studies undertaken in three communities, the purpose of this paper is to explore the various ways in which framings and perceptions of bats can influence a potential spillover of bat-borne viruses to humans in Ghana. It assesses the social, cultural and economic factors that drive human-bat interactions and posits that understanding the socio-economic contexts in which human-bat interactions occur is key to the success of future communication strategies.
Design/methodology/approach
Primary data collection methods included participatory landscape mappings, transect walks, focus group discussions and questionnaire surveys.
Findings
Perceptions of bats vary and are influenced by personal beliefs, the perceived economic benefits derived from bats and the location of bat roosts. Activities that put people at risk include bat hunting, butchering and consumption of poorly prepared bat meat. Those who live and work close to bat roosts, and bat hunters, for example, are more at risk of bat-borne zoonotic disease spillover. Disease risk perceptions were generally low, with high levels of uncertainty, indicating the need for clearer information about personal protective practices.
Originality/value
The results of the study may well inform future risk communication strategies as well as help in developing effective responses to zoonotic disease risk, disease outbreaks and the conservation of bats in communities.