Translations:Advanced Field Epi:Manual 1 - Disease Control and Eradication Programs/223/en

Countries may develop a shared responsibility for development and implementation of animal health and welfare policies including disease control programs. At one end of the scale where livestock producers are the primary beneficiaries of any improvement in outcomes, then the producers may be expected to pay for most or all of the costs associated with the program(s). At the other end of the scale where the benefits of any outcomes may be considered to mainly involve people or areas other than the livestock producer (public health, animal welfare, environmental benefit), then there is a stronger case for having government bear some or most of the costs (Bennett 2012).