Understanding One Health Approach.
                     Understandin
g One Health 
Approach
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What is One 
Health?
One Health is a collaborative, 
multisectoral, and trans-
disciplinary approach working at 
local, regional, national, and 
global levels to achieve optimal 
health and well-being outcomes 
recognizing the interconnections 
between people, animals, plants 
and their shared environment.
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Connected to 
shared environment
One Health is an approach that 
recognizes that the health of 
people is closely connected to 
the health of animals and our 
shared environment. This isn't a 
new concept, but it has become 
more important in recent years.
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Scope of One 
Health
• Agricultural production and land use
• Animals as Sentinels for Environmental 
agent and contaminants detection and 
response
• Biodiversity / Conservation Medicine
• Climate change and impacts of climate on 
health of animals, ecosystems, and humans
• Clinical medicine needs for interrelationship 
between the health professions
• Communications and outreach
• Public policy and regulation
• Research, both basic and translational
• Water Safety and Security
• Welfare / Well-being of animals, humans, 
ecosystems and planet
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Potent ia l  Outcomes from 
the One Health Approach
• More interdisciplinary programs 
in education, training, research, 
and established policy
• More information sharing 
related to disease detection, 
diagnosis, education and 
research 
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Potent ia l  Outcomes f rom 
the One Health Approach 
Cont.
• More prevention of diseases, 
both infectious and chronic
• Development of new therapies 
and approaches to treatments
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Human and Animal 
Interface
Many infectious diseases are 
zoonotic, which means they 
originate in animals and are 
transmitted to humans. 
Various factors like climate change, 
population explosion, international 
travel, global trade, biodiversity 
loss, erratic human lifestyle along 
with mutations and variations in 
pathogens have contributed to the 
threat of emergence and spread of 
newer infectious diseases like 
SARS, Middle East Respiratory 
Syndrome (MERS), and COVID-19. 
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Need for a collective 
One Health method
The pandemic has just reiterated 
the simple fact that humans like 
most animals are equally 
vulnerable to environmental 
conditions. 
Now, to address the present and 
future pandemics effectively, a 
collective One Health method will 
be vital which involves protecting 
human and animal health by 
managing chemical wastes, 
monitoring biodiversity, ecosystem 
change, and by reducing carbon 
footprint. 
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 Importance of  One Health 
approach for  COVID-19
 The foundation of the One Health 
approach comprises communication, 
coordination, and collaboration. 
This combined holistic method will 
surely reduce the occurrence and 
spread of such infections if done 
under the supervision of experts 
from different sectors like animal 
health (veterinarians), 
environmental health (ecologists, 
agricultural workers, and wildlife 
experts), and human health 
(doctors, epidemiologists, and public 
health experts). 
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One Health 
approach in India
In India, One Health approach is 
receiving a positive response from 
multiple sectors, however, we still 
stand in a preliminary stage and 
need to adapt useful strategies of 
international standards to provide 
the finest healthcare facilities.
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Conclusion
We must adopt “One World, One 
Health” philosophy from global to 
the most local levels to avoid any 
impending pandemics which are 
likely to occur more often 
considering the exponentially 
increasing global population and 
urbanization. 
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