One Health questions
Interface: Animal health (AH)/Human health (HH)/Environmental health (EH)
What is the current societal burden of cysticercosis with respect to:
human health and well-being economic burden animal health and welfare environmental impact What are the sources of risk for humans and animals? |
Integrated gender questions
Gendered questions about burden of disease:
How is the human health burden of disease distributed across men, women, boys, and girls? Why? How are the economic burdens of disease shared among men, women, boys, and girls? Why? How is the animal burden of disease distributed across men and women livestock keepers? Why? (e.g., How does disease influence the productivity of livestock and access to livestock products men and women may differentially control?) How are the potential environmental impacts of cysticercosis control (e.g., ecotoxicity from anthelmintics) differently experienced by men and women? Why? How are health and economic burdens of disease affected by other identity markers? Gendered questions about sources of risk:
What knowledge do women, men, and children have about risks from Taenia solium and ways to manage risks? Where do households invest in term of preventive actions? Do/would women and men invest differently? How? Why? Are there different investments in livestock owned or managed by women versus men? Within households and communities, who has access to preventive measures, e.g., using latrines, human anthelmintics? Why? Does infection of pigs lead to economic or food security risks (e.g., if affected pigs have a lower sale value)? Does this affect men and women differently?
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Strategic gender questions
If there are gendered differences in exposure to disease, managing risk, investment decision, and/ or access to preventive measures, what social norms contribute to these differences? How do gender roles in pork production and other parts of the pork value chain affect exposure to disease and ways of managing risk? Who in the household has the capability to make decisions that could affect risks and the burden of disease? (seek knowledge, make decisions about changing farming practices, change norms around hygiene and use of latrines, make decisions about where to invest, change norms around whose health is prioritized) To what extent do national policies influence gendered access to information (e.g., extension, schools) and human health preventive measures?
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Institutional support needed:
Programmatic support
Research program planning that includes gender outcomes and targets. Research team management that facilitates interdisciplinary work. Dedicated budget for gender expertise within the research team for planning, field activities and data analysis. Dedicated budgets to operationalize gender-focused research activities. Gender considerations in logistics for fieldwork: what locations, timing, group composition, compensation, and communication will facilitate the engagement of women and men respondents? Planning of fieldwork to include both integrated and strategic gender questions. Gender capacity building and the appropriate gender balance in local field teams.
Wider institutional support
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