STUDY ON ANIMAL DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL BEHAVIOR OF HERDERS IN MINORITY AREAS
From the perspective of religious belief,this research aims to discuss the prevention and control behavior of animal diseases of herders in minority areas,and explore feasible solutions to improve herders'prevention and control behaviors,so as to provide new thoughts for optimizing animal disease prevention and control strategies in pastoral areas.Based on 537 field survey data in Qinghai province,this study used the Ⅳ-Probit model to address the endogeneity issue,analyzed the influence of religious beliefs on herders'animal disease prevention and control behavior,and the moderating role of information channels.The results were indicated as follows.The baseline regression results showed that herders with religious beliefs were 29.0%less likely to immunize against animal diseases and 14.2%less likely to report animal diseases than those without religious beliefs.That meant religious beliefs significantly inhibited animal disease prevention and control behaviors of herders,and this finding still holds true under multiple robustness tests.Further analysis revealed that learning about animal disease prevention and control through religious-based information channels and a more significant number of information channels lessened the inhibitory effect of religious beliefs on herders'prevention and control behaviors,meaning a negative moderating effect.In summary,the government should pay attention to the influence of religion on animal disease prevention and control behavior of herders in minority areas,actively expand the channels for disseminating information on animal disease prevention and control knowledge,measures,and methods.And it also should appropriately coordinate religious organizations to cooperate with the government in popularizing scientific concepts of disease prevention and control,promote a positive interaction between religion,government,and society,so as to promote religious organizations to contribute to preventing and controlling animal diseases in minority areas.
religious beliefprevention and control behaviorsherderinformation channelⅣ-Probit
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