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Emerging Infectious Diseases and One Health

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 8499

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Prof. Dr. Kow-Tong Chen

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Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan
Interests: epidemiology; infectious disease epidemiology; public health
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Dear Colleagues,

The morbidity of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and emerging zoonotic pathogens has increased by 61% among emerging infectious diseases during the past few decades, threatening global public health. One important effective control measure against emerging infectious diseases is the understanding of environment–agent interactions with human hosts during infection. To overcome the obstacles caused by AMR and emerging zoonotic diseases, it is becoming clear that the entire health system must integrate the concept of One Health.

For example, in the last two years, SARS-CoV-2 emerged and evolved into a worldwide pandemic, threatening human health. The SARS-CoV-2 virus possesses panzootic potential owing to its broad host range and inherent ability to cross the species barrier, thereby highlighting the need for a One Health approach. The concept of One Health is multi-sectoral cooperation in the surveillance and control of emerging infectious diseases in both the human and animal fields.

The focus of this Special Issue is on the One Health concept. We emphasize interdependence between humans and nonhuman species in complex socioecological systems, and environmental factors affecting infectious disease transmission. Authors are invited to submit original articles, systemic reviews and meta-analyses, critical reviews, and short communications addressing all the issues relevant to any recent advances in infectious disease transmission and their impact on individual and public health.

Prof. Dr. Kow-Tong Chen
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • one health
  • emerging infectious disease
  • antimicrobial resistance
  • environmental factors
  • animal

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Emerging Infectious Diseases and One Health: Implication for Public Health
by Kow-Tong Chen
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(15), 9081; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159081 - 26 Jul 2022
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Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are defined as diseases that are newly identified, newly introduced, or newly evolved; or diseases that have recently and rapidly changed in incidence or expanded geographic, host, or vector range agents; or previous infections that acquire new virulence factors; [...] Read more.
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are defined as diseases that are newly identified, newly introduced, or newly evolved; or diseases that have recently and rapidly changed in incidence or expanded geographic, host, or vector range agents; or previous infections that acquire new virulence factors; or infections that spread to unaffected regions [...] Full article
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Losses of Life Expectancy and Productivity Associated with COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: Policy Implication for Future Communicable Disease Control
by Fuhmei Wang, Jinwei Lui and Jung-Der Wang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2419; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032419 - 29 Jan 2023
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This research examines whether the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) did harm to the population’s health through comparing the changes in the life expectancy of Canadians with those of Australians over the period from March 2019 to February 2021 by using a difference-in-differences (DID) [...] Read more.
This research examines whether the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) did harm to the population’s health through comparing the changes in the life expectancy of Canadians with those of Australians over the period from March 2019 to February 2021 by using a difference-in-differences (DID) estimation method. We found that the pandemic did cause differences in life expectancies between Canada and Australia, probably because of different initial control policies for COVID-19. This study uses the indicator of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) to measure the societal health burden, which was corroborated by estimating temporal productivity loss (TPL) and permanent productivity loss (PPL) based on the human capital approach (HCA) using data from Health Canada. The societal health burden in Canada amounted to 6.493 DALYs per 1000 male persons and 5.316 DALYs per 1000 female persons. The economy’s permanent productivity loss was around USD 5.3 billion, while the temporary productivity loss was around USD 3 billion from February 2020 to April 2022. The sum of the above two losses amounted to 0.477% of the GDP in 2019. Swift and decisive decisions at the very early stage of a pandemic can nip contagions in the bud before numbers get out of hand and would be less damaging to people’s health and the economy, as seen in Australia, in contrast to what happened in Canada. We thus recommend that such policies plus telecommunication systems in healthcare services be implemented early on to cope with the future outbreak of any emerging infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Full article
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Research on Selected Wildlife Infections in the Circumpolar Arctic—A Bibliometric Review
by Anastasia Emelyanova, Audrey Savolainen, Antti Oksanen, Pentti Nieminen, Olga Loginova, Khaled Abass and Arja Rautio
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(18), 11260; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811260 - 07 Sep 2022
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One Health, a multidisciplinary approach to public health, which integrates human, animal, and environmental studies, is prudent for circumpolar Arctic health research. The objective of our bibliometric review was to identify and compare research in select infectious diseases in Arctic wildlife species with [...] Read more.
One Health, a multidisciplinary approach to public health, which integrates human, animal, and environmental studies, is prudent for circumpolar Arctic health research. The objective of our bibliometric review was to identify and compare research in select infectious diseases in Arctic wildlife species with importance to human health indexed in English language databases (PubMed, Scopus) and the Russian database eLibrary.ru. Included articles (in English and Russian languages) needed to meet the following criteria: (1) data comes from the Arctic, (2) articles report original research or surveillance reports, (3) articles were published between 1990 and 2018, and (4) research relates to naturally occurring infections. Of the included articles (total n = 352), most were from Russia (n = 131, 37%), Norway (n = 58, 16%), Canada (n = 39, 11%), and Alaska (n = 39, 11%). Frequently reported infectious agents among selected mammals were Trichinella spp. (n = 39), Brucella spp. (n = 25), rabies virus (n = 11), Echinococcus spp. (n = 10), and Francisella tularensis (n = 9). There were 25 articles on anthrax in eLibrary.ru, while there were none in the other two databases. We identified future directions where opportunities for further research, collaboration, systematic reviews, or monitoring programs are possible and needed. Full article
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