The Components of 'One World - One Health' Approach

Summary The interaction between living beings, including men, animals and pathogens, sharing the same environment, should be considered as a unique dynamic system, in which the health of each component is inextricably interconnected and dependent with the others. Nowadays, a new integrated One Healt...

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Published in:Transboundary and emerging diseases 2013-11, Vol.60 (s2), p.4-13
Main Authors: Calistri, P., Iannetti, S., L. Danzetta, M., Narcisi, V., Cito, F., Di Sabatino, D., Bruno, R., Sauro, F., Atzeni, M., Carvelli, A., Giovannini, A.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Communicable Diseases - epidemiology
Disease Outbreaks - statistics & numerical data
Dynamical systems
Ecology
Ecosystem
Global Health
Health Status
Humans
infectious diseases
Interdependence
One Health
prevention
zoonoses
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Summary:Summary The interaction between living beings, including men, animals and pathogens, sharing the same environment, should be considered as a unique dynamic system, in which the health of each component is inextricably interconnected and dependent with the others. Nowadays, a new integrated One Health approach is reflecting this interdependence with a holistic view to the ecological system. The One Health approach can be defined as a collaborative and a multidisciplinary effort at local, national and global level to guarantee an optimal healthy status for humans, animals and environment. Strictly related to the One Health concept is to be considered the control of infectious diseases, which have influenced the course of human history. Four different components might be identified as key elements within the ‘One World – One Health’ (OWOH) approach: the geographical component, the ecological one, the human activities and the food‐agricultural ones.
ISSN:1865-1674
1865-1682
DOI:10.1111/tbed.12145