The social and political lives of zoonotic disease models: Narratives, science and policy
Melissa Leach, , Ian Scoones
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doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.03.017
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Highlights
Zoonoses pose major health threats and complex scientific and policy challenges.
This requires combining mathematical, geo-statistical and participatory models.
Social, cultural and political norms and values shape the development of models.
H5N1 and Ebola models have been co-constructed with a particular politics of policy.
Uncertainty requires plural and conditional policy advice.