Abstract
One Health is a rapidly developing area of integrative research and intervention focused on zoonotic diseases in the context of the human, animal, and environment interface. Its central tenet is the inseparability of the health of humans, animals, and ecosystems. Spawned by the recognition of the need for greater collaboration between veterinary and human medicine, One Health also requires consideration of the social and ecological dimensions of health challenges in order to create an integrative framework beyond biomedicine, including natural and social sciences, as well as local and traditional knowledge and perspectives. One Health offers an opportunity to reconcile disciplinary silos in the health sciences, and its transdisciplinary imperative offers solutions to the limits of conventional thinking in biomedicine and public health. This chapter examines how different sectors address and define zoonoses and points to the need to develop a global prioritization scheme for surveillance, reporting, and assessment of endemic, epidemic, and pandemic zoonoses according to their relative health burdens. With its more holistic, social-ecological systems framing One Health holds substantial promise toward reversing current trends in disease emergence. This chapter starts by distinguishing zoonoses and their emergence from other infectious diseases, as well as understanding how and why new zoonoses emerge to cause epidemics and even pandemics, previously controlled diseases re-emerge, and “old” diseases persist. Finally, the chapter describes how One Health is operationalized as transdisciplinary implementation research, aimed at understanding and preventing disease emergence in the human-environment systems context, and the challenges as well as new opportunities for global health this presents.
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Wilcox, B.A., Steele, J.A. (2021). One Health and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases. In: Kickbusch, I., Ganten, D., Moeti, M. (eds) Handbook of Global Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05325-3_88-2
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