Browsing by Author "Railey, Ashley"

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    Enhancing livestock vaccination decision-making through rapid diagnostic testing
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2019-12) Railey, Ashley; Lankester, Felix; Lembo, Tiziana; Reeve, Richard; Shirima, Gabriel; Marsh, Thomas
    • Compared to vaccination, the collective approach to diagnostic testing presents a low-fixed cost. • Existing household livestock-health behaviors increase the likelihood for uptake of preventative health practices. •Initial evidence to support household investments in livestock preventative health over therapeutic treatments.
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    Spatial and temporal risk as drivers for adoption of foot and mouth disease vaccination.
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2018-08-09) Railey, Ashley; Lembo, Tiziana; Palmer, Guy; Marsh, Thomas; Shirima, Gabriel
    Identifying the drivers of vaccine adoption decisions under varying levels of perceived disease risk and benefit provides insight into what can limit or enhance vaccination uptake. To address the relationship of perceived benefit relative to temporal and spatial risk, we surveyed 432 pastoralist households in northern Tanzania on vaccination for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). Unlike human health vaccination decisions where beliefs regarding adverse, personal health effects factor heavily into perceived risk, decisions for animal vaccination focus disproportionately on dynamic risks to animal productivity. We extended a commonly used stated preference survey methodology, willingness to pay, to elicit responses for a routine vaccination strategy applied biannually and an emergency strategy applied in reaction to spatially variable, hypothetical outbreaks. Our results show that households place a higher value on vaccination as perceived risk and household capacity to cope with resource constraints increase, but that the episodic and unpredictable spatial and temporal spread of FMD contributes to increased levels of uncertainty regarding the benefit of vaccination. In addition, concerns regarding the performance of the vaccine underlie decisions for both routine and emergency vaccination, indicating a need for within community messaging and documentation of the household and population level benefits of FMD vaccination.