One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches

The One Health concept of combined veterinary and human health continues to gain momentum, but the supporting literature is sparse. In this book, the origins of the concept are examined and practical content on methodological tools, data gathering, monitoring techniques, study designs, and mathematical models is included. Zoonotic diseases, with discussions of diseases of wildlife, farm animals, domestic pets and humans, and real-world issues such as sanitation, economics, food security and evaluating the success of vaccination programmes are covered in detail. Discussing how to put policy into practice, and with case studies throughout, this book combines research and practice in one broad-ranging volume.

Table of Contents:
1: Theoretical Foundations 1: One Health in history 2: Theoretical issues of One Health 3: The human–animal relationship in the law 4: One Health: an ecological and conservation perspective 2: Methods for the assessment of the animal-human linkages 5: Measuring added value from integrated methods 6: The role of social sciences in One Health – reciprocal benefits 7: The role of human–animal interactions in education 8: Integrated risk assessment – foodborne diseases 9: A One Health perspective for integrated human and animal sanitation and nutrient recycling 10: One Health study designs 11: Animal–human transmission models 12: One Health economics 13: Integrated human and animal demographic surveillance 3: Case studies from research to policy and practice 14: Brucellosis surveillance and control: a case for One Health 15: Bovine tuberculosis at the human–livestock–wildlife interface in sub-Saharan Africa 16: Integrated rabies control 17: Leptospirosis: development of a national One Health control programme in Fiji 18: Human and animal African trypanosomiasis 19: Non-communicable diseases: how can companion animals help in connection with coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes and depression? 20: Integrated One Health Services 21: Beyond fences: wildlife, livestock and land use in southern Africa 22: Better together: identifying the benefits of a closer integration between plant health, agriculture and One Health 23: Food security, nutrition and the One Health nexus 24: One Health into action: integrating global health governance with national priorities in a globalized world 25: One Health in policy development: an integrated approach to translating science into policy 4: Capacity building, public engagement and conceptual outlook 26: Evolution of the One Health movement in the USA 27: Institutional research capacity development for integrated approaches in developing countries: an example from Vietnam 28: Enabling academic One Health environments 29: Individual and institutional capacity building in global health research in Africa 30: Transdisciplinary research and One Health 31: Operationalizing One Health for local governance 32: Non-governmental organizations in One Health 33: Toward a healthy concept of health 34: Grappling with complexity: the context for One Health and the ecohealth approach 35: Summary and outlook of practical use of One Health

About the Author :
Jakob Zinsstag (Edited By) Prof. Dr. Jakob Zinsstag is a veterinarian with a PhD in tropical animal health. Since 1998 he has led a research group on human and animal health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and has been deputy head of the department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Swiss TPH since 2011. He spent eight years in West Africa at the International Trypanotolerance Centre in The Gambia and four years as the director of the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques in Côte d'Ivoire. He is also past president of the International Association for Ecology and Health and president of the scientific board of the Transdisciplinary network of the Swiss Academies. Prof. Zinsstag focuses on the control of zoonoses in developing countries and the provision of health care to mobile pastoralists using a One Health approach. Esther Schelling (Edited By) Esther Schelling is the Head of Innovations, Learning and Quality Assurance at Vétérinaires sans Frontières Suisse (VSF-Suisse). After more than 20 years of research on health of pastoralists, zoonoses and One Health approaches at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, she wanted to foster implementation of gained main lessons. She is co-editor of the textbook 'One Health: The theory and practice of integrated health approaches' (2015/2020). The added value of a closer cooperation between the health sectors are seen in the earlier recognition of health events, in better control of zoonosis and more efficient surveillance and integrated health services - but should be shown more explicitly. The OH4 HEAL project led by VSF-Suisse seeks to improve integrated health services for families, their livestock, and the environment they live in pastoral cross-border regions of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somali.