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Main description:
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.
Contents:
Introduction.- One Health: its origins and its future: a personal perspective.- The concept of One Health.- What is One Health - the clinical perception.- What is One Health: from a veterinary perspective. - The importance of understanding the human-animal interface. - The importance of understanding the environmental interface.- Wildlife: the need to better understand the linkages.- The economics of One Health. - Examples of a One Health approach to specific diseases from the field.- Henipaviruses. - Avian influenza in Indonesia. - Rabies in SE Asia. - Mosquito-borne viruses .- Cost of bovine tuberculosis to Ethiopia.- The triple reassortment influenza H1N1 experience (still missing) .- One Health: The Hong Kong experience.- Clostridium difficile.- Echinococcosis and cysticercosis.- Primates, men and germs: an organized trafficking .- Subject index.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Publication date: December, 2013
Pages: 346
Weight: 6801g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Microbiology
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