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The One Health concept recognizes that the health of people is closely linked to the health of animals and the environment. The One Health approach encourages the collaborative efforts of the human health, veterinary health, and environmental health communities working locally, nationally, and globally, to achieve optimal health for people, animals, and our environment. The One Health concept has become more important in recent years because many factors such as population growth, globalization of commerce, finance, production, and services, environmental changes such as climate change and deforestation, ever-increasing movement of people, animals, plants, food, and feed have altered the interactions among humans, animals, and the environment. These changes have caused the emergence and re-emergence of many diseases.
The World Health Organization (WHO), the Food Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the European Union all support the adoption of the One Health approach to respond to emerging infectious diseases and outbreaks. Without a One Health approach to understanding all the inter-related factors affecting transmission and spread of emerging infectious diseases, prevention, management and elimination will remain beyond our reach.
Since its inception in 1994, ISID's Program on Monitoring Emerging Infectious Diseases (ProMED) has advocated the One Health concept by covering emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and toxic exposures of interest to the plant, animal, and human health sectors.
The ”One Health 2017” Virtual Special Issue will include content published in the Journal aligned to the One Health concept.
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases is published by Elsevier for the International Society for Infectious Diseases.