Week 4 : One Health Flashcards
What is One Health?
One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach working at the local, regional, national, and global levels with the goal of
achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Ecosystem is a community of living organism interacting with and another and with the non-living components the environment they inhabit.
Examples of non-living organism?
Mineral, Soil, Water, Air
Examples of living organism ?
Plant, Animals, Humans
What is healthy ecosystem?
An ecosystem that is stable, sustainable, maintain it’s character in composition, organization and function over time, as well as maintaining it’s resilient to stress.
What are the direct effect on the ecosystem?
Elimination of natural predators Drought Extreme weather events Overfishing Heavy livestock grazing Waste Decreased biodiversity Timber harvesting
What are the indirect effect on the ecosystem?
population growth, economic, socio-political, science and technology, cultural and religious belief.
What are the factors that leads to the emergence and re-emergence of animal diseases and zoonosis?
- international travel and commerce
- Globalization of agriculture and trade
- Microbial adaptation
- Changing host susceptibility
- Climate and weather change
- Changing ecosystem
- Poverty
- Economic development
- Technology
Examples of disease that is climate sensitive?
Cholera Japanese Encephalomyelitis Dengue Chikungunya virus Leishmaniasis West Nile Virus
What are One Health issues?
Zoonotic disease Antimicrobial resistance Vector-borne disease Environmental health Food safety and security Bioterrorism
Examples of zoonotic diseases?
Rabies West Nile Virus Brucellosis Covid 19 Ebola Anthrax Q fever
Why we need One Health in Disease control and prevention?
- Animal shared our susceptibility to disease and environmental hazard.
- Serves as early warning
- Information
- Need coordinated approach in humans and animals
What are the one health approach?
- Understanding the ecosystem
- Components of food security and safety
- Recognize communication, collaboration and trust between human and animal health practitioners.
- Emphasizes community participation and development
- Has broad vision and includes other disciplines
Outcomes of One Health paradigm?
- Improve the capability
- Clearly define role and responsibilities
- emergency preparedness plan
- Facilities and exchanging of staff
- Mobilizing financial resources
