Publications by authors named "Halifa Farchati"
Article Synopsis
- Monitoring equine health requires accurate data on the distribution of equines, currently incomplete in France as it only covers some live equines in professional environments and dead equines collected by renderers.
- This study aimed to improve the understanding of equine population distribution at the commune level in France using Bayesian methods that account for owner locations and urban coverage.
- Two methods for assigning equine locations were tested, revealing significant differences in density estimates, with Method 2 giving a more realistic portrayal that accounted for urban influences while dead equines provided comparable data to live equines in terms of overall distribution.
Identifying and tracking equines are key activities in equine health prevention. France is one of the few European countries with an operational centralized database that records information on equines, owners, and keepers but not on the location and keeping conditions of equines. The objective of our study was to collect information on keeping habits of equines and the relative location of a wide range of equines, owners, and keepers and discuss their implication for surveillance and control of outbreak improvement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAccurate demographic knowledge of the equine population is needed to assess and model equine health events. France is one of the few European countries with an operational centralized database (SIRE) recording individual data on all declared equines living in France and on their owners and keepers. Our study aimed to assess SIRE database quality concerning the updating of information by equine owners and keepers with a view to its improvement and use in surveillance and research.
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