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Preventing the spread of infectious diseases is a global public good (public good is a concept associated with economic policies. Over 60% of human infectious diseases are zoonoses). Veterinary service stands on a tripod of (a) animal production, (b) animal health, and (c) veterinary public health (VPH). Claude Bourgelat, the founder of veterinary services and education mentioned in his testament ‘interrelatedness of animals and human (Comparative Pathology)’. In fact, veterinary public health was born when Rudolf Virchow coined the term zoonoses after realising that man and animals acted as co-determinants. William Osler (1849–1919) organised a significant study of parasites in pork supply, suspecting human infection. Ante-mortem and post-mortem meat inspections protected humans from trichinellosis and taeniasis, besides other meat-borne diseases. Organised slaughter house and meat inspection enabled detection of bovine-tuberculosis-infected herd through back tracing economically, established a method of ‘reverse tracing’ as an important tool in epidemiological investigation. Epidemiology and zoonoses are the most important components. The Veterinary Public Health Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was founded by James H. Steele (1947), who strongly advocated that ‘good animal health is important for good public health’.
This chapter deals with Veterinary Public Health, the way it integrates human and animal health, the organisation at the international and national levels, and how the World Health Organization (WHO) and Office International des Epizooties (OIE) are integrated into it. The horizon of its activities is wide; it covers rural and urban health alike and provides food safety from farm to fork. VPH has access to several health-related areas.
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Narayan, K.G., Sinha, D.K., Singh, D.K. (2023). Veterinary Public Health. In: Veterinary Public Health & Epidemiology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7800-5_1
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