One Health: The Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Emerging Infectious Diseases : Food Safety and Security, and International and National Plans for Implementation of One Health Activities

John S. Mackenzie

ISBN 10: 366252354X / ISBN 13: 9783662523544

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - One Health is an emerging concept that aims to bring together human, animal, and environmental health. Achieving harmonized approaches for disease detection and prevention is difficult because traditional boundaries of medical and veterinary practice must be crossed. In the 19th and early 20th centuries this was not the case-then researchers like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch and physicians like William Osler and Rudolph Virchow crossed the boundaries between animal and human health. More recently Calvin Schwabe revised the concept of One Medicine. This was critical for the advancement of the field of epidemiology, especially as applied to zoonotic diseases. The future of One Health is at a crossroads with a need to more clearly define its boundaries and demonstrate its benefits. Interestingly the greatest acceptance of One Health is seen in the developing world where it is having significant impacts on control of infectious diseases.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Health: The Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Emerging Infectious Diseases : Food Safety and Security, and International and National Plans for Implementation of One Health Activities
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 366252354X
• ISBN 13: 9783662523544
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 15D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 394 grams

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Synopsis

One Health is an emerging concept that aims to bring together human, animal, and environmental health. Achieving harmonized approaches for disease detection and prevention is difficult because traditional boundaries of medical and veterinary practice must be crossed. In the 19th and early 20th centuries this was not the case—then researchers like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch and physicians like William Osler and Rudolph Virchow crossed the boundaries between animal and human health. More recently Calvin Schwabe revised the concept of One Medicine. This was critical for the advancement of the field of epidemiology, especially as applied to zoonotic diseases. The future of One Health is at a crossroads with a need to more clearly define its boundaries and demonstrate its benefits. Interestingly the greatest acceptance of One Health is seen in the developing world where it is having significant impacts on control of infectious diseases.

About the Author

John S. Mackenzie was one of the volume editors of "Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: the Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-species Transmission", CTMI vol. 315, ISBN 978-3-540-70961-9, published in 2007