Risks and Benefits of Human, Animal and Environmental Interactions: Application of the One Health Approach
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366). This special issue belongs to the section "One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2019) | Viewed by 14068
Special Issue Editors
Interests: infectious disease epidemiology; zoonoses; neglected tropical diseases; global health; Bayesian statistics; cysticercosis; One Health
Interests: infectious diseases; zoonoses; neglected tropical diseases; vector-borne diseases; protozoan parasites; genomics; drug resistance; molecular diagnosis
Interests: infectious disease epidemiology; global health; vectorborne diseases; spatiotemporal models; impact evaluation; surveillance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on the health risks and benefits arising from the interaction among humans, animals and the environment, also called One Health.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), infectious diseases are responsible for at least 15 million deaths worldwide each year. More than 60% of all infectious diseases and an even larger proportion of emerging infections are believed to be zoonotic. Several of these zoonotic diseases also involve vectors for transmission or are highly influenced by environmental and climatic factors. Moreover, most foodborne infections emerge at the interface between human, animals and the environment and it has been estimated that in 2010, 33 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) were due to 31 foodborne disease hazards. Similarly, most neglected tropical diseases occur as the result of the infectious agent coming into contact with humans through animals or the environment. These infections also incur several million DALYs globally each year.
While research has concentrated on the negative aspects of the interface between humans, animals and the environment, this interface also results in important benefits to human health. For example, animal products are humans best source of protein, several programs have used zootherapy to encourage children with Autism or people with dementia to communicate with their environment, animals can be used as sentinel for the detection of chronic and infectious diseases in humans, and livestock remain the main livelihood of many people living in low income countries.
Improved diagnostic tools are needed to measure the occurrence of zoonotic pathogens in all species and in the environment, to better understand the transmission dynamics of these infections and ultimately, to improve their control. There is also a need for enhanced epidemiological and statistical methods to incorporate the complex interactions between the three elements of the One Health. There is also a paucity of well-designed epidemiological studies conducted to measure the benefits of animal interactions with humans on overall health. Finally, there is an important need to develop and validate tools to measure both the risks and benefits that animals and the environment may have on human health.
Prof. Hélène Carabin
Prof. Christopher Fernandez Prada
Prof. Kate Zinszer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Zoonotic infections
- One health
- Zootherapy
- Ecohealth
- Epidemiology
- Diagnosis
- Health adjusted life years
- Health economics
- Public health interventions
- Disease transmission modelling
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