One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil
Despite being an important public health issue, particularly due to rabies, dog bites and associated risk factors have rarely been assessed by health services from a One Health perspective. Accordingly, the present study aimed to assess dog biting and associated demographic and socioeconomic risk fa...
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| author | Caroline Constantino Evelyn Cristine Da Silva Danieli Muchalak Dos Santos Igor Adolfo Dexheimer Paploski Marcia Oliveira Lopes Vivien Midori Morikawa Alexander Welker Biondo |
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| description | Despite being an important public health issue, particularly due to rabies, dog bites and associated risk factors have rarely been assessed by health services from a One Health perspective. Accordingly, the present study aimed to assess dog biting and associated demographic and socioeconomic risk factors in Curitiba, the eighth-largest Brazilian city with approximately 1.87 million people, based on the post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) rabies reports between January/2010 and December/2015. The total of 45,392 PEP reports corresponded to an average annual incidence of 4.17/1000 habitants, mainly affecting white (79.9%, 4.38/1000 population), males (53.1%, 4.81/1000 population), and children aged 0–9 years (20.1%, 6.9/1000 population), with severe accidents associated with older victims (<i>p</i> < 0.001) and mainly caused by dogs known to the victims. An increase of USD 100.00 in the median neighborhood income was associated with a 4.9% (95% CI: 3.8–6.1; <i>p</i> < 0.001) reduction in dog bites. In summary, dog biting occurrence was associated with victims’ low income, gender, race/color, and age; severe accidents were associated with elderly victims. As dog bites have been described as multifactorial events involving human, animal, and environmental factors, the characteristics presented herein should be used as a basis to define mitigation, control, and prevention strategies from a One Health perspective. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-192c5e43fa994431a9bbe5fbca410af72023-11-17T21:39:21ZengMDPI AGTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease2414-63662023-03-018418910.3390/tropicalmed8040189One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern BrazilCaroline Constantino0Evelyn Cristine Da Silva1Danieli Muchalak Dos Santos2Igor Adolfo Dexheimer Paploski3Marcia Oliveira Lopes4Vivien Midori Morikawa5Alexander Welker Biondo6Graduate College of Veterinary Science, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba 80035-050, PR, BrazilInstitute of Biotechnology, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Tecomarias Avenue, Botucatu 18607-440, SP, BrazilDepartment of Collective Health, Federal University of Paraná State, Curitiba 80060-240, PR, BrazilDepartment of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USADepartment of Collective Health, Federal University of Paraná State, Curitiba 80060-240, PR, BrazilDepartment of Collective Health, Federal University of Paraná State, Curitiba 80060-240, PR, BrazilDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba 80035-050, PR, BrazilDespite being an important public health issue, particularly due to rabies, dog bites and associated risk factors have rarely been assessed by health services from a One Health perspective. Accordingly, the present study aimed to assess dog biting and associated demographic and socioeconomic risk factors in Curitiba, the eighth-largest Brazilian city with approximately 1.87 million people, based on the post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) rabies reports between January/2010 and December/2015. The total of 45,392 PEP reports corresponded to an average annual incidence of 4.17/1000 habitants, mainly affecting white (79.9%, 4.38/1000 population), males (53.1%, 4.81/1000 population), and children aged 0–9 years (20.1%, 6.9/1000 population), with severe accidents associated with older victims (<i>p</i> < 0.001) and mainly caused by dogs known to the victims. An increase of USD 100.00 in the median neighborhood income was associated with a 4.9% (95% CI: 3.8–6.1; <i>p</i> < 0.001) reduction in dog bites. In summary, dog biting occurrence was associated with victims’ low income, gender, race/color, and age; severe accidents were associated with elderly victims. As dog bites have been described as multifactorial events involving human, animal, and environmental factors, the characteristics presented herein should be used as a basis to define mitigation, control, and prevention strategies from a One Health perspective.https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/8/4/189dog biteshuman rabies prophylaxisspatial analysisassociated factorslow income |
| spellingShingle | Caroline Constantino Evelyn Cristine Da Silva Danieli Muchalak Dos Santos Igor Adolfo Dexheimer Paploski Marcia Oliveira Lopes Vivien Midori Morikawa Alexander Welker Biondo One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease dog bites human rabies prophylaxis spatial analysis associated factors low income |
| title | One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil |
| title_full | One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil |
| title_fullStr | One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil |
| title_short | One Health Approach on Dog Bites: Demographic and Associated Socioeconomic Factors in Southern Brazil |
| title_sort | one health approach on dog bites demographic and associated socioeconomic factors in southern brazil |
| topic | dog bites human rabies prophylaxis spatial analysis associated factors low income |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/8/4/189 |
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