Ethical Promises and Pitfalls of OneHealth

摘要: Emerging infectious diseases such as Ebola, Hendra, SARS, West Nile, Hepatitis E and avian influenza have led to a renewed recognition of how in human beings, wildlife livestock are interlinked. The changing prevalence spread infections largely determined by activities changes environment climate—where the latter often also caused activities. Since beginning 21st century, these insights been brought together under heading OneHealth—a concept that calls for interdisciplinary collaboration between various sciences well professional practices promote protect health non-human animals natural (American Veterinary Medical Association, 2008). Just from public broadened focus policy medical care, treating individual patients protecting promoting population health, OneHealth an even broader perspective, including concern animals, social-cultural factors affect human, animal environmental (Rock et al., 2009; Zinsstag 2011). not only covers collaborative work understand control zoonotic diseases, but other ways which interactions plants humans may positively or negatively impact on each other’s health. Thus, studies veterinary medicine lead new medicine, vice versa. Acknowledgment links environmental, social is course novel insight (Evans Leighton, 2014). Hippocrates already pointed importance clean requirement good health; early movements emphasized hygienic living conditions good-quality housing, sewage systems air water; founders modern William Osler Rudolf Virchow promoted …