One Health And Animal Welfare Flashcards
(10 cards)
When does human-animal conflict occur?
When wildlife and human activities clash, often due to habitat loss, agriculture, or urbanisation
One HEalth Relevance: These conflicts impact animal welfare, human safety, ecosystem health, and inc risk of zoonotic dx transmission
Human animal interaction
- Emotional health
- Tourism with animals -> bhvr change, dx transmission, ecosystem change
Human and animal abuse ?
LINKED
- Children often linked to animals being most vulnerable in society
- children exposed to interpersonal violence 60x more likely to suffer emotional and physical abuse
- Warning signs in children: Mc Donald triad -> bedzettingm pyromania, animal cruelty)
Cultural consideration?
- Can relate to contraception, euthanasia, working animals
- Understand caregivers perspective => CONTEXTUALISED CARE
Disease transmission?
- eg Rabies - preventable - efforts to vaccinate dogs
- Toxoplasma = cats - tissue cyst from undercooked meat, congenital transmission
What other disease transmission consideration?
- Unsustainable farming or rapid expansion which encroaches into forests habitats inc incidents of wildlife-livestock interface where pathogen spillover can take place
- Live animal markets source of pathogen transmission
T/F rise of urbanisation reduces out connection with the natural environment and is associated zith an inc in human health problems, including autoimmune, inflammatory, and neuropsychiatric disorders
TRUE
Dog ownership /mental health?
- Need to care for something - metal health issue?
- Responsibility that comes zith ownership can cause distress / stress too
- Monitary cost of vet care can be significantly
- guilt/ regret if need to rehome for financial purposes
Enforcement of legislation ?
International Regulations impacting animal trade?
