Intro to One Health Flashcards
What is one health?
One Health is a comprehensive approach to health that focuses on:
1) Improving health and well-being through the prevention of risks &
the mitigation of effects of crises (e.g. emerging diseases) that
originate at the interface between humans, animals & their
environments.
2) Promoting multi- (cross-)sectoral collaborations and a “whole of
society” treatment of health hazards, as a systemic change of perspective in the management of risk.
What is the scope of one health?
Zoonotic disease, emerging disease, multi-host pathogens, food safety, food security (farming practices), antimicrobial resistance, mental health, obesity, climate change, etc.
Applies across research, education, policy & practice.
What are examples of anthropogenic factors that contribute to disease emergence?
- Popln growth and urbanization
- Land use change
- Climate change
- Water management
- Agricultural intensification
- Weak surveillance control, health systems
- Conflict and political upheaval
- Globalisation, trade and travel
- Human behaviour
- Antimicrobial misuse
What are the features of one health?
- Ecology
- Vet med
- Public health
- Human med
- Molecular and microbiology
- Health economics
- Environmental health
- Bio threats
- Food safety
- Parasitic/vector-borne infections
- Vaccines/therapeutics
- Human-animal bond
