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The CBRA is a knowledge center for burden of disease and risk assessment methodology. It applies these methods to study the health and economic impact of public and animal health threats.
The CBRA is a knowledge center for burden of disease and risk assessment methodology. It applies these methods to study the health and economic impact of public and animal health threats.
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12 September 2018 | Welfare-adjusted life years
Currently, separate measures are used to estimate the impact of animal diseases on mortality and animal welfare. In a new study published in PLOS ONE, we introducesd a novel metric, the Welfare-Adjusted Life Year (WALY), to estimate disease impact by combining welfare compromise and premature death components.
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28 June 2018 | Economic impact of bovine cysticercosis in Spain
In Catalonia (north-eastern Spain), Taenia saginata has been described in cattle but its occurrence in humans is unclear. Moreover, whether cattle acquired the infection in Catalonia or outside Catalonia and its economic impact have not been investigated. In a new study published in Parasites & Vectors, we estimated the prevalence and spatial distribution of bovine cysticercosis in Catalonia (2008–2015), and the burden from T. saginata upon the animal and human sectors in Catalonia (2013–2015).
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Read more in our publications section.
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