a concept that recognizes the optimal health of people as being connected to the health of animals and the environment. The collaborative effort of multiple disciplines working...

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by sand flies, can be found in humans and carnivores

The number of new cases of a disease that occur in a population in a particular geographical area within a given period of time.

People or groups who have an involvement or interest in some system, including beneficiaries, providers and funders.

A small-scale test of the methods and procedures to be used on a larger scale if the pilot study demonstrates that these methods and procedures can work.

Project monitoring and accountability are the main objectives of progress reports. The typical progress report gives some summary of the project goal, states the progress made...

rate (usually daily) at which a bloodsucking insect population generates new inoculations from a currently infectious case.

Epidemic occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population.

Nonliving chemical and physical factors in the environment

Literally, "data about data"; data that defines and describes the characteristics of other data, used to improve understanding of data and data-related processes.

Synonym for visceral leishmaniasis (see: leishmaniasis)

A number of animals of one kind kept together under human control or a congregation of gregarious wild animals.

An assessment of the financial and human resources available for implementing the surveillance activity including the expertise and capability of personnel.

A food-borne disease or food-borne illness is defined as a disease, usually either infectious or toxic in nature, caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of...

the specific location or arrangement of continuing or successive objects or events in space or time. The geographical range of an organism or disease

In this team, each member becomes so familiar with the roles and responsibilities of the other members that tasks and functions become interchangeable to some extent. This type...

Identification of undiagnosed cases of disease using rapid tests or examinations

See "food"

The conditions that surround a given area, especially in reference to parameters which may influence the functioning of devices, equipment, or the readings of instruments. These...

A form of integrative research that employs a holistic and/or systems thinking and participatory action research, combines knowledge from outside, as well as within academia and...