00000ctm a22000003a 4500 UP-1685523046126335556 Buklod 20171020140037.0 m o j ta 171020s xx d r |||| u| (iLib)UPMNL-00015613401 UPM-CPH eng LG 996 1977 P9 A73 Arambulo, Primo V. author. Estimation of economic losses from foot-and-mouth disease and cost-benefit analysis of alternative policies for eradication in a developing country by Primo V. Arambulo. 1977. 199 leaves. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. Thesis (Doctor of Public Health)--University of Texas The application of economic analysis to animal disease and/or eradication programs has become an important tool in recent years. As there are more programs with desirable ends than there are resources to execute them, it is necessary to allocate available resources among competing programs. In theallocation of public funds, the Government must consider the benefits that would be generated for the community as a whole. Techniques have been developed to facilitate and guide in assessing benefits and in making rational decisions for efficient resource allocation. The most widely used technique is cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is universally considered to tbe the most important and troublesome animal disease from the point of view of disruption and effect on the economy. It is a disease with low mortality and covertly observable losses so that its economic impact was not clearly visualized until the application of economic analysis. FMD is endemic in the Philippines. Virus types A, O and C have been identified. In 1975, there were 67,681 reported cases or an incidence rate of 480.52 per 10 5 livestock population at risk. The nation sustains an estimated annual direct economic loss of P186,122.573 (US dollar25,083,905) from decreased milk production, weight loss, abortion and stillbirths, inability to breed, treatment of cases, additional labor, restrictions, and vaccination. The earnings foregone from future production, delays in the livestock development programs, marketing disruptions, trade restrictions, opportunity costs involved in feeding sick animals back to their original weight, crop failures, inter alia, were not considered. These consequential losses from FMD to the community and the other sectors of the economy are prodigious but unquantifiable in pecuniary terms. Deterministic models were developed to portray the rate of change in FMD cases. Available intervention measures (i.e., vaccination, slaughter, quarantine) were applied singly or in combination to shape eradication program models. Seven (7) alternate policies for FMD eradication were evolved. Based on CBA results, which were expressed in present value (PV), internal rate of return (IRR), and cost-benefit ratio (CB ratio), it was recommended that the Government should adopt a 4-year eradication program using a policy of vaccination of all susceptible animals every 6 months and quarantine in the first 18 months followed by slaughter of infected animals with indemnification, ring vaccination, and quarantine in the subsequent 30 months. ?. PRIMO V. ARAMBULO Foot-and-mouth disease. UP Fi. UPMNL CPH LG 996 1977 P9 A73 Thesis