Principles of One Health for a better planet

Barbara Häsler, Asta Tvarijonaviciute, Sara Savic

• Publisher: CAB International
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781800623002
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

The climate crisis, inequality, poverty, disease, hunger, food waste, and loss of biodiversity are all part of an extensive list of global challenges impacting us at a local level that could be addressed better by using the One Health approach. In a world where people, animals and the environment are recognized as being interconnected and interdependent, we need to work together to improve the health of people, plants, animals and ecosystems simultaneously. One Health provides the thinking, concepts, tools, and practical approaches needed to tackle health problems in a collective and collaborative way. But what is One Health, and how can we implement it in our everyday life? This textbook provides an easy to understand, straightforward description of One Health concepts, principles and methods, structured around core competencies so that everyone can contribute to addressing today's most profound global problems more efficiently and effectively. As an entry-level learning resource for anybody with an interest in better understanding and implementing One Health, it is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students, practitioners, decision-makers and researchers across a wide range of subject specialisms.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Editors’ Foreword
• Quality Assurance
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Introduction and Evolution of One Health, Ecohealth and Planetary Health
• 2 Comparing One Health and Ecohealth with Other Integrated Approaches to Health
• 3 Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in One Health
• 4 Knowledge Integration in One Health: Science and Decision Support
• 5 A Data–Information–Knowledge–Wisdom Framework for Solving Complex One Health Problems
• 6 In Search of Integration and Health: Reflexivity and Communities of Practice in One Health
• 7 Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystem Services and One Health
• 8 Social Determinants of Health at the Human–Animal–Ecosystem Interface
• 9 Gender Equality in the Context of One Health
• 10 One Health Implementation Cycle, Stakeholder Analysis and Engagement
• 11 Doing One Health! Using Participatory and Systems-Thinking Steps to Develop and Implement a One Health Intervention
• 12 Evaluation of One Health Initiatives
• 13 The Economic Evaluation of One Health Interventions
• 14 Policy and Governance
• 15 One Health and Sustainable Development Goals
• 16 Bringing ‘One Health’ Home
• Glossary
• Editors’ Afterword
• Index