ONE HEALTH" Spanish plan for the protection of life and the environment
30/05/2024 20:26 Noticias
So far in the 21st century, the One Health concept has been generated, propagated and consolidated, a health concept that has been known for some time, which defines and proposes a joint and global approach between three interrelated areas: human health, animal health and the environment. The objective is for public health, medicine, healthcare, veterinary medicine and environmental sciences, along with other disciplines, to work together to defend a single health.
Human health and animal health are closely related to each other and to the environment that surrounds us. More than half of transmissible human diseases are zoonotic - that is, they are transmitted to people from animals - or were originally so, and up to 70% of emerging pathogens are of animal origin. In the process of development and transmission of these infections, the balance of ecosystems plays a fundamental role. The relationship between people, animals and the environment in which they live is dynamic.
The One Health concept tries to adapt to these changing relationships, which in recent decades are especially significant due to issues such as globalization, migrations, increased human mobility throughout the planet, changes in the geographical distribution of different animal species, climate change, deforestation, intensive livestock farming, new animal migratory routes, environmental pollution.
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