One health: The interface between veterinary and human health

One Health is an emerging global key concept integrating human and animal health through international research and policy. The complex relationships between the human and animal have resulted in a human-animal-environment interface since prehistorical times. The people, animals, plants, and the env...

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Main Authors: Kshitiz Shrestha, Krishna Prasad Acharya, Sujan Shrestha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Veterinary World 2018-01-01
Series:International Journal of One Health
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Online Access:http://www.onehealthjournal.org/Vol.4/2.pdf
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description One Health is an emerging global key concept integrating human and animal health through international research and policy. The complex relationships between the human and animal have resulted in a human-animal-environment interface since prehistorical times. The people, animals, plants, and the environment are so intrinsically linked that prevention of risks and the mitigation of effects of crises that originate at the interface between humans, animals, and their environments can only improve health and wellbeing. The “One Health” approach has been successfully implemented in numerous projects around the world. The containment of pandemic threats such as avian influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome within months of outbreak are few examples of successful applications of the One Health paradigm. The paper begins with a brief overview of the human-animal interface and continues with the socio-economic and public health impact caused by various zoonotic diseases such as Middle East respiratory syndrome, Influenza, and Ebola virus. This is followed by the role of “One Health” to deal the global problem by the global solution. It emphasizes the interdisciplinary collaboration, training for health professionals and institutional support to minimize global health threats due to infectious diseases. The broad definition of the concept is supposed to lead multiple interpretations that impede the effective implementation of One Health approach within veterinary profession, within the medical profession, by wildlife specialists and by environmentalists, while on the other side, it gives a value of interdisciplinary collaboration for reducing threats in human-animal-environment interface.
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spelling doaj.art-638be15abe4c47e8a249f062cfa6fa582022-12-22T02:42:42ZengVeterinary WorldInternational Journal of One Health2455-56732455-89312018-01-01481410.14202/IJOH.2018.8-14One health: The interface between veterinary and human healthKshitiz Shrestha0Krishna Prasad Acharya1Sujan Shrestha2Department of Veterinary Medicine, Kasetsart University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand.Regional Veterinary Laboratory, Pokhara, Nepal.National Academy of Medical Science, Bir Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.One Health is an emerging global key concept integrating human and animal health through international research and policy. The complex relationships between the human and animal have resulted in a human-animal-environment interface since prehistorical times. The people, animals, plants, and the environment are so intrinsically linked that prevention of risks and the mitigation of effects of crises that originate at the interface between humans, animals, and their environments can only improve health and wellbeing. The “One Health” approach has been successfully implemented in numerous projects around the world. The containment of pandemic threats such as avian influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome within months of outbreak are few examples of successful applications of the One Health paradigm. The paper begins with a brief overview of the human-animal interface and continues with the socio-economic and public health impact caused by various zoonotic diseases such as Middle East respiratory syndrome, Influenza, and Ebola virus. This is followed by the role of “One Health” to deal the global problem by the global solution. It emphasizes the interdisciplinary collaboration, training for health professionals and institutional support to minimize global health threats due to infectious diseases. The broad definition of the concept is supposed to lead multiple interpretations that impede the effective implementation of One Health approach within veterinary profession, within the medical profession, by wildlife specialists and by environmentalists, while on the other side, it gives a value of interdisciplinary collaboration for reducing threats in human-animal-environment interface.http://www.onehealthjournal.org/Vol.4/2.pdfemerging infectious diseasesone healthviral zoonoses
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title One health: The interface between veterinary and human health
title_full One health: The interface between veterinary and human health
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