![]() ![]() Rabies is a classical disease in which the “One health” concept is easily applied. This finding is supported by the lack of submissions describing economic evaluation of animal health surveillance to this Research Topic. ![]() Although economic efficiency of surveillance is recognized as highly relevant, one of the studies ( Häsler et al.) identified that there are few quantitative economic evaluations carried out in practice. The development of new methods to support sustainable animal health surveillance systems requires accurate cost and benefit evaluation and assessment of cost-effectiveness. Finally, five articles focus on developments in diagnostics with regards to evaluating assays, new sampling approaches, test characteristics and disease measure. Six articles discuss the critical role of surveillance end-users and describe how to enhance disease reporting, engagement and surveillance output communication. The use of secondary data to describe risk factors and demographics for risk-based surveillance (outbreak preparedness and surveillance design) is further explored in five other articles. Four articles focus on different aspects of syndromic surveillance, from design to analyses, interpretation and evaluation. The two reviews and two original research articles on rabies and West Nile disease describe, specifically, a “One health” approach to surveillance. Altogether 145 authors contributed to 21 original research articles, one brief research report, one perspective article and two reviews, from 19 different countries of all five continents. The broad scope and wide-ranging contributions from the animal and public health sectors in this Research Topic means readers will find animal health surveillance developments for zoonoses of ruminant, swine, poultry, companion animal, and primate origin. ![]() The approach allows development of methods to drive economic sustainability of surveillance systems, and to optimize efficiency, considering resources are limited. The emergence of new pathogens, and other threats to public and animal health, offers opportunities to develop innovative surveillance methods, particularly when implementing “One health” surveillance, an approach in which at least two sectors from human health, animal health (wildlife and domestic animals), plant health, food safety or environmental health collaborate to improve outcomes for all ( 1). ![]()
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