From Reacting to Preventing Pandemics : Building Animal Health and Wildlife Systems for One Health in East Asia and the Pacific

Investing in One Health – cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary coordination and collaboration across the human health, animal health, and environmental health sectors – is crucial for maintaining healthy agricultural and food systems and addressing global health security risks. Such action can reduce the threat of future pandemics through upstream preventive actions, early detection, and agile responses to zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases outbreaks, coupled with measures for promoting food safety, including anti-microbial resistance. This regional review, conducted jointly by the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, assesses the socioeconomic impacts of zoonotic diseases and epidemics across the East Asia and Pacific region, providing a background on why emerging infectious diseases are occurring more frequently in this region. This review looks at the benefits of using a risk-based approach, assesses the management of animal and wildlife health and the ability to identify and respond to emerging threats and protect the health, agricultural production, and ecosystem services. It provides recommendations on priority activities to be undertaken, and offers governments and their development partners the evidence and analysis needed to make more and better investments in wildlife systems and animal health to improve global health security.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Format: Report biblioteca
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2022-06-29
Subjects:FOOD SECURITY, EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES (EIDs), TRANSBOUNDARY ANIMAL DISEASES (TADs), PATHOGEN SPILLOVER, COVID-19, HEALTH AND NUTRITION,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37447
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