ONE HEALTH: the concept and synergies at ICM

Factors external to our bodies affect our health; Humankind has probably always been conscious of this fact. At the same time, when human settlements grew into villages and cities, the accumulated activity altered significantly the surrounding environment. However, in ancient times, the consciousness that these alterations were backfiring on human health was rarely made. The studies of Rachel Carson and the publication of Silent Spring, sparked mainstream consciousness of the loop connecting human activity with environmental affectation and backfiring on human health. In parallel, the concept of One Health has mainly grown in the early years of the 21st century after the multiple zoonotic disease outbreaks and pandemics. It also includes “environmental health”, to address the multiple links between the three areas to “sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems”. In Spain, the Plataforma One Health was established in 2021 to help disseminate this idea to society at large as well as to promote the concept in the different legislation initiatives. Studies of the links between global-scale ocean alteration, animal and human health clearly need to be promoted in a society that growingly expands into the planets’ oceans for food, resources and economic activity in general

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Peters, Francesc
Format:	material didáctico biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM) 2023-05-12
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10261/311414
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