One Health: A cross-sectoral, holistic approach to reduce disease risk and build resilience

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
One Health ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Holistic Approach

scholarly journals The Concept of One Health - a holistic approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Julia Landford
Keyword(s):  
One Health ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Hendra Virus ◽  
Spongiform Encephalopathy ◽  
Antibiotic Resistant ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Food Borne ◽  
Human Ecosystem ◽  
Global Movement

‘One Health’ is a global movement of practitioners and policy-makers to support a better understanding of the ecology of diseases at the animal–human–ecosystem interface. Globally, diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1 HPAI) have resulted in significant human fatalities, animal deaths and multi-billion dollar impacts. Several recent disease events in Australia also highlight the complexity of these issues including outbreaks of Hendra virus in Queensland and northern New South Wales resulting in four human fatalities and dozens of horse deaths. At a broader level, Australia faces ongoing challenges with infectious diseases such as air-borne influenza, antibiotic resistant diseases and food-borne disease outbreaks which have regular impacts on public health. The complexity surrounding transmission of diseases at the animal–human–ecosystem interface highlights the need for multidisciplinary approaches – known as One Health approaches. While there has been some progress with advocacy of One Health in Australia, stronger political will is needed to break down sectoral and disciplinary silos and to enable more effective measures at the operational level.

scholarly journals Occurrence of Escherichia coli in cloacal samples of broiler chicken from Kollam and Kottayam districts

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Afsal S. ◽  
Latha C. ◽  
Sethulekshmi C. ◽  
Binsy M. ◽  
Beena C. J. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foodborne Pathogens ◽  
Broiler Chicken ◽  
One Health ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Cloacal Swab ◽  
Zoonotic Diseases ◽  
Foodborne Illness ◽  
Culture Techniques ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Conventional Culture

Foodborne pathogens like E. coli are considered as the major causes of foodborne illness in humans worldwide. The present study was undertaken to determine the occurrence of E. coli in cloacal samples of broiler chicken from Kollam and Kottayam districts. The occurrence of E. coli in cloacal samples from broiler chicken was 76.5 per cent from Kollam and 79 per cent from Kottayam through culture techniques. Out of the total 400 cloacal swab samples collected from broiler chicken, 77.8 per cent were positive for E. coli. The samples which were subjected to conventional culture techniques were further analysed for PCR confirmation. The study revealed that, 56.5 and 67 per cent samples were positive for E. coli from Kollam and Kottayam, respectively. An overall occurrence of 61.8 per cent out of 400 samples were confirmed for E. coli by PCR. One Health approach can be used as a suitable tool to combat the foodborne zoonotic diseases, since it is an integrated, multidisciplinary, holistic approach. Proper implementation of biosecurity measures in farms is mandatory to control foodborne zoonotic diseases.

scholarly journals Nutrition, Microbiota and Role of Gut-Brain Axis in Subjects with Phenylketonuria (PKU): A Review

Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 3319
Author(s):  
Elvira Verduci ◽  
Maria Teresa Carbone ◽  
Elisa Borghi ◽  
Emerenziana Ottaviano ◽  
Alberto Burlina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Intestinal Barrier ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Brain Functions ◽  
Complex Population ◽  
Exogenous Factors ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel ◽  
Host Metabolism

The composition and functioning of the gut microbiota, the complex population of microorganisms residing in the intestine, is strongly affected by endogenous and exogenous factors, among which diet is key. Important perturbations of the microbiota have been observed to contribute to disease risk, as in the case of neurological disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, among others. Although mechanisms are not fully clarified, nutrients interacting with the microbiota are thought to affect host metabolism, immune response or disrupt the protective functions of the intestinal barrier. Similarly, key intermediaries, whose presence may be strongly influenced by dietary habits, sustain the communication along the gut-brain-axis, influencing brain functions in the same way as the brain influences gut activity. Due to the role of diet in the modulation of the microbiota, its composition is of high interest in inherited errors of metabolism (IEMs) and may reveal an appealing therapeutic target. In IEMs, for example in phenylketonuria (PKU), since part of the therapeutic intervention is based on chronic or life-long tailored dietetic regimens, important variations of the microbial diversity or relative abundance have been observed. A holistic approach, including a healthy composition of the microbiota, is recommended to modulate host metabolism and affected neurological functions.

scholarly journals Optimizing Open Data to Support One Health: Best Practices to Ensure Interoperability of Genomic Data from Microbial Pathogens

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth E. Timme ◽  
William J. Wolfgang ◽  
Maria Balkey ◽  
Sai Laxmi Gubbala Venkata ◽  
Robyn Randolph ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
One Health ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Interdisciplinary Cooperation ◽  
Microbial Pathogens ◽  
Health Goals ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Open Access Database ◽  
Pathogen Surveillance

The holistic approach of One Health, which sees human, animal, plant, and environmental health as a unit, rather than discrete parts, requires not only interdisciplinary cooperation, but standardized methods for communicating and archiving data, enabling participants to easily share what they have learned and allow others to build upon their findings.Ongoing work by NCBI and the GenomeTrakr project illustrates how open data platforms can help meet the needs of federal and state regulators, public health laboratories, departments of agriculture, and universities. Here we describe how microbial pathogen surveillance can be transformed by having an open access database along with Best Practices for contributors to follow. First, we describe the open pathogen surveillance framework, hosted on the NCBI platform. We cover the current community standards for WGS quality, provide an SOP for assessing your own sequence quality and recommend QC thresholds for all submitters to follow. We then provide an overview of NCBI data submission along with step by step details. And finally, we provide curation guidance and an SOP for keeping your public data current within the database. These Best Practices can be models for other open data projects, thereby advancing the One Health goals of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR) data.

scholarly journals One Health for a changing world: new perspectives from Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 372 (1725) ◽  
pp. 20160162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew A. Cunningham ◽  
Ian Scoones ◽  
James L. N. Wood
Keyword(s):  
One Health ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Ecological Health ◽  
Poverty Dynamics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Political Dimensions

The concept of One Health, which aims to drive improvements in human, animal and ecological health through an holistic approach, has been gaining increasing support and attention in recent years. While this concept has much appeal, there are few examples where it has been successfully put into practice. This Special Issue explores the challenges in African contexts, with papers looking at the complex interactions between ecosystems, diseases and poverty dynamics; at underlying social and political dimensions; at the potentials for integrative modelling; and at the changes in policy and practice required to realise a One Health approach. This introductory paper offers an overview of the 11 papers, coming from diverse disciplinary perspectives, that each explore how a One Health approach can work in a world of social, economic and environmental change.

scholarly journals Optimizing open data to support one health: best practices to ensure interoperability of genomic data from bacterial pathogens

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth E. Timme ◽  
William J. Wolfgang ◽  
Maria Balkey ◽  
Sai Laxmi Gubbala Venkata ◽  
Robyn Randolph ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
One Health ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Interdisciplinary Cooperation ◽  
Health Goals ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Open Access Database ◽  
The One ◽  
Pathogen Surveillance

Abstract The holistic approach of One Health, which sees human, animal, plant, and environmental health as a unit, rather than discrete parts, requires not only interdisciplinary cooperation, but standardized methods for communicating and archiving data, enabling participants to easily share what they have learned and allow others to build upon their findings. Ongoing work by NCBI and the GenomeTrakr project illustrates how open data platforms can help meet the needs of federal and state regulators, public health laboratories, departments of agriculture, and universities. Here we describe how microbial pathogen surveillance can be transformed by having an open access database along with Best Practices for contributors to follow. First, we describe the open pathogen surveillance framework, hosted on the NCBI platform. We cover the current community standards for WGS quality, provide an SOP for assessing your own sequence quality and recommend QC thresholds for all submitters to follow. We then provide an overview of NCBI data submission along with step by step details. And finally, we provide curation guidance and an SOP for keeping your public data current within the database. These Best Practices can be models for other open data projects, thereby advancing the One Health goals of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR) data.

scholarly journals Microbial and chemical pollutants on the manure-crops pathway in the perspective of “One Health” holistic approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 785 ◽  
pp. 147411
Author(s):  
Martyna Buta ◽  
Ewa Korzeniewska ◽  
Monika Harnisz ◽  
Jakub Hubeny ◽  
Wiktor Zieliński ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
One Health ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Chemical Pollutants

scholarly journals A mikrobiom globális szerepe a „One Health” megközelítésmód szerint

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-59
Author(s):  
Csaba Hancz
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
One Health ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Global Function ◽  
Environmental Friendly ◽  
Rapid Production ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The One ◽  
Global Food

All-pervasive role and significance of microbiome is becoming more and more acknowledged thanks to the intense multidisciplinary research done in the last decades. Its global function and significance is on the rise, and the future fate of the biosphere is unequivocal and beyond dispute. Uncertainties and varied usage of synonyms justifies to define once again notions like microbiome, pro- and prebiotics and clarify their relations. Knowledge about microbes important for our health is expanding rapidly.  Extensive research on pre- and probiotics leads to their rapid production and broadscale application in medicine, nutrition, and agriculture. Human, animal and environmental microbiome are results of co-evolution so adopting the holistic approach suggested by the One Health fighting zoonoses can be even more effective as well as global food production more environmental-friendly and sustainable.

scholarly journals Human-Animal Relationship Dysfunction: A Case Study of Animal Hoarding in Italy

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1501
Author(s):  
Danila d’Angelo ◽  
Francesca Ciani ◽  
Alessandra Zaccherini ◽  
Simona Tafuri ◽  
Luigi Avallone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Efficient Solution ◽  
One Health ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Psychiatric Disease ◽  
Compulsive Hoarding ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The One

“Animal hoarding” or “compulsive hoarding of animals” is a psychiatric disease, which has important social implications and a profound influence on animal welfare. To date, this phenomenon has been little investigated and largely unexplored. The present study aims to systematically describe a case of animal hoarding, which remains unresolved. The report refers to a case of a woman suffering from animal hoarding that emerged in 2005. From March 2014 to December 2019, 450 animals were seized over nine different occasions. This disease had significant implications on the welfare of the animals collected, which lived in poor housing and hygiene conditions that frequently led to their death. Since animal hoarding cases involve sanitary, legal, and veterinary aspects, we believe that a multidisciplinary approach is necessary in order to prevent a recurrence and a new accumulation of animals. A holistic approach should be taken according to the One Health principle that involves different stakeholders at every level in order to adopt an efficient solution.

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