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Gendered knowledge practices and human-animal-ecological health in Papua New Guinea: a qualitative study during a zoonotic tuberculosis investigation

2025· article· en· W4410221647 on OpenAlexaff
Benjamin Hegarty, Paula Jops, Janet Gare, Jane Greig, Herick Aeno, Somu Nosi, A Holmes, Priscah Hezeri, Dukduk Kabiu, Pele Melepia, Suman Majumdar, Margaret Kal, Philipp du Cros, Angela Kelly‐Hanku

Bibliographic record

VenueSocial Science & Medicine · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicZoonotic diseases and public health
Canadian institutionsKensington Health
FundersAustralian Centre for International Agricultural ResearchDepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government
KeywordsNew guineaTuberculosisQualitative researchPublic healthEcologySociologyGeographyEnvironmental healthAnthropologyMedicineEthnologyBiologyNursingPathology

Abstract

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There have been consistent calls to incorporate gender frameworks into One Health research and policy. Men's and women's roles in relation to animals in many rural and agricultural communities may influence potential pathogen exposure and transmission patterns of zoonotic infectious diseases. However, men's and women's roles related to animals in rural societies are not static but change over time. This article draws on the results of qualitative research about perceptions and practices related to animal species and animal products in five sites located in Eastern Highlands Province and East New Britain, two provinces in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The qualitative research, which aimed to explore animal-human interactions that may pose a risk of zoonotic infections through focus group discussions, formed part of a broader study of zoonotic association and risks for extrapulmonary tuberculosis in PNG. We first introduce participants' descriptions of symptoms of illness that they attributed to zoonotic disease, as well as the animals that they attributed those diseases to. We then draw on an in-depth case study of practices related to rearing pigs - animals with important economic and social value in PNG - to illustrate the impact of social and ecological change on the interplay of gender and relationships with animals. One Health strategies at the community level can focus on gender as a way to understand changes underway in the type and intensity of interactions with animals in rural communities, including their potential impact on zoonotic diseases.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.992
Threshold uncertainty score0.047

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.008
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.103
GPT teacher head0.482
Teacher spread0.379 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2025
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