SVEPM 2019—Implications of pathogen and antimicrobial evolution on animal health, herd management and policy making, society for veterinary epidemiology and preventive medicine conference Utrecht, the Netherlands 27th–29th March 2019

In recent decades, so-called “mini-publics” have been organized in many countries to renew policy making and democracy. One characteristic of mini-publics is that the selection of the participants is based on random sampling or sortition. This gives each member of the community an equal chance of being selected. Another feature is that deliberation forms the core of the process of how proposals are developed. In this paper, we investigate the possibilities and challenges of sortition and deliberation in the context of the call for a deepening of democracy and more citizen engagement in policy making. Based on extensive research on citizens’ forums (G1000) in The Netherlands, we show the potential of mini-publics, but a number of shortcomings as well. Some of these are related to the specific design of the G1000, while others are of a more fundamental nature and are due to the contradictory democratic values that deliberative mini-publics try to combine. One of these concerns the tension between the quality of deliberation and political impact. We conclude that combining institutional approaches could be a way out to deal with these tensions and a step forward to both deepen and connect democratic processes.

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Occupational Allergy: Lectures Held During a Course on Occupational Allergy at The Hague in May, 1958, Organized by the Netherlands Society of Allergy in Co-operation with the Netherlands Institute for Preventive Medicine and the Netherlands Society of Occupational Medicine Under the Auspices of the European Academy of Allergy

Journal of the American Medical Association ◽

10.1001/jama.1959.03000320112035 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 169 (15) ◽

pp. 1810

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Preventive Medicine ◽

Occupational Medicine ◽

Occupational Allergy ◽

Netherlands Society ◽

European Academy ◽

The Hague

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Assessing the Impact of Deliberative Democratic Initiatives at the Local Level: A Framework for Analysis

Administration & Society ◽

10.1177/0095399718760588 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 51 (5) ◽

pp. 749-769 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ank Michels ◽

Harmen Binnema

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Policy Making ◽

Local Community ◽

Local Politics ◽

Public Policies ◽

Local Level ◽

Direct Impact ◽

Indirect Impact ◽

The Impact

Although deliberative reforms have been proposed to strengthen democracy, little is known about their impact on politics, public policies, and society. This article develops a framework to systematically assess this impact, differentiating between direct and indirect forms of impact. We apply this framework to two cases of deliberative citizens’ summits in the Netherlands. Our analysis reveals that these summits have a limited direct impact on local politics and policy making, but a relatively strong indirect impact on the local community. The article also discusses some conditions that mediate the impact of the forum.

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Development of a pandemic of African Swine Fever

Medycyna Weterynaryjna ◽

10.21521/mw.6186 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 75 (02) ◽

pp. 6186-2019

Author(s):

ZYGMUNT PEJSAK ◽

MARIAN TRUSZCZYŃSKI ◽

KAZIMIERZ TARASIUKL

Keyword(s):

Infectious Diseases ◽

Wild Boar ◽

Large Scale ◽

Animal Health ◽

Swine Influenza ◽

African Swine Fever ◽

World Health ◽

The European Union ◽

Leading Position ◽

Veterinary Epidemiology

In the introduction of this paper the increasingly accepted nomenclature of basic expressions used in veterinary epidemiology is presented. This is in accordance with the 2018 Edition of Wiley-Blackwell Veterinary Epidemiology, by Michael Thrusfield. Pandemia and not Panzootia is used for large scale outbreaks of infectious diseases also in relation to animals characterizing significantly increased morbidity and mortatlity over a wide geographic area, including countries, continents or even the whole globe and causing significant economic, social and even political disruption. It is underlined that the pandemics of infectious diseases of animals will continue to increase because of the growing transboundary trade and transportation of animals and animal products and increasing international contacts of humans. In the control of pandemics of humans, particularly, for example of influenza of the years 1918-1919, and also in 1968, but also pandemics of other ethiology occurring in humans the World Health Organisation (WHO) took the leading position. In case of avian and swine influenza as well as in pandemics occurring in animals, the leading position in prevention, control and eradication belongs to World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The main part of this paper is devoted to the characterization of the pandemic of African Swine Fever (ASF) which started in 2007 in Georgia, transmitted from Africa. Countries, where ASF virus (ASFV) was confirmed by laboratory tests are mentioned in the text of this paper. They are located in Eurasia. Among them are countries, being members of the European Union (EU). The routs of spreading of the ASFV in wild boar and swine are given, the methods of ASF control in EU were presented. The main vector of the ASF spread in EU, is the wild boar and the humans. Future distribution of the pandemia spread of ASFV is difficult to predict. Veterinary services of many countries, practitioners and scientists are working intensively to understand epidemiology of ASF and to stop the spread of ASFV.

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